A History of Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Far Eastern Frontier Before Birobidzhan
• Chapter 2 Early Settlements and Indigenous Peoples of the Amur Region
• Chapter 3 Russian Expansion into the Amur Basin
• Chapter 4 Jewish Life in the Russian Empire
• Chapter 5 Revolution, Civil War, and the Making of Soviet Nationality Policy
• Chapter 6 The Origins of the Birobidzhan Project
• Chapter 7 International Interest and Jewish Responses
• Chapter 8 Founding the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• Chapter 9 Yiddish Culture in the Soviet Far East
• Chapter 10 Land, Labor, and Early Agricultural Settlement
• Chapter 11 Stalinism and the Limits of Autonomy
• Chapter 12 War, Mobilization, and the Soviet Jewish Experience
• Chapter 13 Postwar Repression and Cultural Decline
• Chapter 14 Birobidzhan in the Late Stalin Era
• Chapter 15 Khrushchev’s Thaw and Renewed Regional Development
• Chapter 16 Jewish Identity Under Late Soviet Rule
• Chapter 17 Industry, Railways, and the Economy of the Oblast
• Chapter 18 Demographic Change and the Decline of the Jewish Population
• Chapter 19 Religion, Memory, and Community Life
• Chapter 20 The Oblast in the Final Years of the Soviet Union
• Chapter 21 Post-Soviet Transformation and Economic Challenges
• Chapter 22 Relations with Russia, Israel, and the Wider Jewish World
• Chapter 23 The Amur Region, China, and the Geopolitics of the Borderlands
• Chapter 24 Cultural Revival and the Question of Jewish Autonomy
• Chapter 25 The Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Contemporary Russia