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Dreams of nationhood : American Jewish communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan project, 1924-1951
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- Creator
- Henry Felix Srebrnik
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xx, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781936235117, 1936235110, 9781618116871, 9781618110114, 1618116878, 161811011X
- OCLC
- on1135597571, ocn769190216, ocn639167535
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index.
- Introduction: American Jews, communism, the ICOR and Birobidzhan -- The formation of Ambijan -- The people's delegation and the popular front, 1935-1939 -- Wartime aid to the Soviet Union: the ICOR -- Wartime aid to the Soviet Union: Ambijan -- The postwar orphans' campaign and the Ambijan-ICOR merger -- The glory years, 1946-1948 -- Ambijan and the creation of israel -- The gathering storm: McCarthyism, cold war, and decline -- Islands of resistance, 1949-1950 -- Conclusion: from hope to hoax