In summer 2022 I went to Jewish Autonomous Oblast to try to understand how did life of Jewish minorities of the Russian Far East go. Jewish Autonomous Region is one of two official Jewish jurisdictions in the world, the other being Israel. It seems to be an ordinary region of Russian Federation but I managed to find some cultural peculiarities along with the stories of people who live in Birobidzhan since their early ages.
Timecodes:
00:00 - Obluchye - the Trans-Siberian town of railway workers
02:50 - How many Jews live in Jewish Autonomous Oblast?
03:40 - Exploring Birobidzhan - the capital city of the region
07:24 - Tasting Jewish Food
08:18 - Yiddish Language in modern days
10:23 - The story of the Literature professor Roman Fain and his experience in Yiddish
In 1924, the unemployment rate among Jews exceeded 30%, partially as a result of pogroms (attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire) but also as a result of the policies of the USSR, which prohibited them from being cr
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