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Birobidzhaner Shtern
The Birobidzhaner Shtern (Yiddish: ; "Birobidžaner Štern"; "The Birobidzhan Star") is a newspaper published in both Yiddish and Russian in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia. It was set up in November 1930 in Birobidzhan to cater for the newly arrived Jewish immigrants. Henekh Kazakevich was first editor of the newspaper. Emmanuil Kazakevich was an author and staff member of the newspaper in 1935-1938. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast had been set up by the Soviet government in an attempt to resolve the Jewish
of the JAO.
- Nikolay Mikhaylovich Volkov - Governor of JAO
- Viktor Gozhy - First Vice-Chairman of the JAO
See also.
- Administrative divisions of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Amur Bridge Project
- Birobidzhan Jewish National University
- Birobidzhaner Shtern
- David Bergelson
- Jews and Judaism in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Mikhail Kalinin
- Semyon Dimanstein