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Blogs Liberty and Power Why Some Jews Would Rather Live in Siberia than Israel

Jun 8, 2010

Why Some Jews Would Rather Live in Siberia than Israel

by Liberty and Power

Whatever your opinion of Helen Thomas, read why some Jews would rather live in Siberia than Israel. This fascinating article describes how refugees are beginning to return from Israel to Birobidzhan, in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia's far east that Stalin established in 1935 for Yiddish-speaking Jews before he turned on it.