Birobidzhan
Americannoun
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
Example Sentences
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After his lonely death, at a pre-trial detention centre in Birobidzhan in Russia’s Far East, the 39-year-old was mourned by only 11 people at his cremation.
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
The so-called Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, which Stalin set up as a showplace in Siberia, has only 30,000 Jews in a population of 163,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
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