Birobidzhan
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noun
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a city in SE Russia: capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region. Pop: 77 250 (2002)
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another name for the Jewish Autonomous Region
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Birobidzhan City Court records contain no information about a criminal case against him, though there is a record of a non-criminal case of “petty hooliganism” submitted on 20 June.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024
Much later on, he takes a look around Russia’s oblast, or province, of Birobidzhan, “nothing less than the modern world’s first Jewish homeland.”
From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2015
Judah also travels to Birobidzhan, the improbable Soviet Jewish homeland on the border with China, and finds no sign of a feared Chinese demographic invasion.
From Newsweek • Feb. 28, 2015
In Birobidzhan, close to the Chinese border, Judah finds the Chinese are already farming Russian land.
From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2013
Only a pallid, two-page newspaper published twice a week in remote Birobidzhan on the Manchurian border kept the dim flame from guttering out.
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