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  Jewish Autonomous Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The history of settlement of the territory of the Jewish Autonomous Region is closely connected with that of the lands along the Amur River.
Jewish Communists argued that the way to solve this ideological dilemma was by creating a Jewish territory, hence the ideological motivation for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
In 1991, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast was transferred from under the jurisdiction of Khabarovsk Krai to the jurisdiction of the Federation, but by that time most of the Jews had gone and the remaining Jews now constituted less than two percent of the local population.
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 Jewish Autonomous Oblast - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть - Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast; formerly Jewish Autonomous Republic) is situated in the Far Eastern federal district of Russia, bordering China.
The Jewish Autonomous Republic was founded in 1928 as the Jewish National District.
In 1991, the Jewish Autonomous Region was elevated to the status of an Autonomous Republic, but by that time most of the Jews had gone and the remaining Jews now constituted less than two percent of the local population.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast   (1410 words)

  
 Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A liberation attempt for their European brothers by the Polish-Hungarian forces under the rule of Wladislaus III of Poland was crushed by the Ottomans in 1444 in the battle of Varna.
An autonomous Bulgarian principality in its ethnic borders was proclaimed by the Treaty of San Stefano of March 3, 1878, following the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78.
Most of Thrace was included in the autonomous region of Eastern Rumelia, whereas the rest of Thrace along with the whole of Macedonia was returned under the sovereignty of the Ottomans.
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 History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Jewish Labor Bund, for instance, was to be the sole representative of the Jewish worker, conflicting with Lenin's universal coalition of workers of all nationalities.
Birobidzhan, the Siberian settlement north of China delegated as an autonomous Jewish state, was technically the second Jewish state since the advent of the Diaspora (the first being Khazaria), and did capture the imaginations of Soviet Jews striving toward a homeland.
The official Soviet policy regarding the Holocaust was to present it as atrocites against Soviet citizens, not acknowledging the genocide of the Jews.
history-of-the-jews-in-russia-and-the-soviet-union.kiwiki.homeip.net   (5123 words)

  
 UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Fifteen were granted a soviet socialist republic status that, according to the constitution, most resembled that of a sovereign nation-state.
Soviet farmers cultivated about a third more land than American farmers, but their average yield per acre was only 56 percent of that in the United States.
The relative allocation of the 750 seats on the Soviet of Nationalities depended on the rank of a given ethnic group on the "nationalities ladder." The 15 republics had 32 deputies each; the 20 autonomous republics, 11 deputies each; the eight autonomous oblasts, five deputies each; and the ten autonomous okrugs, one deputy each.
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 Wikinfo | History of the Jews in the Soviet Union
The Jewish people were therefore striving to create a state of their own, and it would be unjust to deny them that right." Soviet approval in the UN Security Council was critical to the UN portioning of Palestine, which led to the founding of Israel.
Yiddish, Jewish theaters, Jewish schools, synagogues, and Zionism bounded the Soviet Jewish population together despite the absence of a common locale; but these were the very elements restricted by a Soviet Union promoting secularism among all its citizens.
Soviet secularism, the discouragement of Yiddish, and the restriction of other elements that forged an exclusive, Jewish identity, caused assimilation to be a foreboding threat to Jewish existence.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Soviet_Union   (3162 words)

  
 The Washington Dispatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jewish anti-Semites usually pose as Jews with a legitimate goal, such as promoting peace or simply exercising their right of free speech for a noble purpose.
As Jews they were better positioned to spy on the Jewish community and seek out rabbis trying to secretly educate Jewish children in their heritage and report them to the secret police where severe punishment awaited.
The leftist Jewish anti-Semite is willing, even eager, to betray his people and his heritage even in the cause of a cruel despotism that preaches a false idealism.
www.washingtondispatch.com /article_10485.shtml   (1766 words)

  
 Jewish Autonomous Region - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Jewish Autonomous Region
The province is situated in the bend of the Amur River west of Khabarovsk and bordering on the Heilongjiang province of northern China.
The oblast arose out of the ‘Republic’ established here in 1928 by the Soviet government for the resettlement of Jews made destitute after the 1917 Revolution, when private commerce was made illegal.
The result is that the region is far from predominantly Jewish in character.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Jewish+Autonomous+Region   (256 words)

  
 Jewish Autonomous Oblast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Image:RussiaJewish.png The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть - Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast; formerly Jewish Autonomous Republic) is situated in the Far Eastern federal district of Russia, bordering China.
It has an area of 36,000 km² and a population of 190,915 (2002), of which only about 2% is Jewish: the remainder is Russian (approximately 85%), Ukrainian, and Korean.
Some political observers - particularly those sympathetic to the Palestinian cause in the Middle East - have proposed resurrecting the Jewish Autonomous Republic as both an alternative to Israel as the Jewish national homeland and as a permanent solution to the ongoing Arab-Jewish difficulties.
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 Zionism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pogroms in Russia led Jewish philanthropists such as the Montefiores and the Rothschilds to sponsor agricultural settlements for Russian Jews in Palestine in the late 1870s, culminating in a small group of immigrants from Russia arriving in the country in 1882.
Hess proposed a socialist state in which the Jews would become agrarianised through a process of "redemption of the soil" which would transform the Jewish community into a true nation in that Jews would occupy the productive layers of society rather than being an intermediary non-productive merchant class which is how he perceived European Jews.
Jewish society would not be healthy until the inverted pyramid was righted, and the majority of Jews became workers and peasants again.
zionism.iqnaut.net   (5769 words)

  
 Tatarstan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic is located in the center of the East European Plain, approximately 800 km east of Moscow.
They were, however, put down by the Bolsheviks and the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established on May 27, 1920.
Tatarstan is one of the most economically developed federal subjects of Russia; it is also the second most industrialized federal subject after Samara Oblast.
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 History of the Jews in the Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Such actions, along with extensive Jewish participation among the Bolsheviks, plagued the Communists during the Russian Civil War against the Whites with a reputation of being "a gang of marauding Jews"; Jews were a plurality ethnicity in the Communist Central Committee, which had a non-Russian majority.
The so-called Doctor's Plot of 1953, on the other hand, was a deliberately anti-Semitic policy: Stalin targeted "corrupt Jewish bourgeois nationalists," eschewing the usual code words like "cosmopolitans." Stalin died, however, before this next wave of arrests and executions could be launched in earnest.
The absence of Soviet-era repression exposed the remaining Jews to a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the former Soviet Union, led by ultra-nationalist demagogue Vladimir Zhironovsky, himself half-Jew.
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 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
At the same time, an effort to encourage 'Soviet proletarian culture' in the Yiddish language was made, as a countermeasure against traditional Jewish 'bourgeois' or 'shtetl' culture.
Note their anti-Jewish ferocity existed even without a Jewish state and without the Palestine issue,which are prime issues today.
Rachel Neuwirth is a Los Angeles-based analyst on the board of directors of the West Coast Region of the American Jewish Congress and the chairperson of the organization’s Middle East committee.
www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=4381   (1052 words)

  
 Jewish Anti-Semitism - Part I
The jewish anti simits are not anti simits, because they are jews.
Their belief is that the land of Israel will be given back to the jews after they masshiah arrival, therefore the jewish poeple have no right to establish a state in zion before that.
Luckily they are a minority in the jewish world, however the sad part is that some of them live right here in Israel and say there is no place for a jewish state.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1273228/posts   (3369 words)

  
 Yevsektsiya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Another important aim of the Yevsektsiya was to mobilize the world Jewry in favor of Soviet regime.
In all Soviet schools the history subjects were replaced by Marxist history of class struggle, and the pre-revolutionary history was ostracized.
By Soviet definition, national cultures were to be "socialist by content and national by form", to be used to promote the official aims and values of the state.
www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/y/ye/yevsektsiya.html   (512 words)

  
 Kiev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This was stimulated by the prohibition of Jewish settlement in Russia proper (Moscow and Saint Petersburg) — as well as further eastwards.
The city remained in German hands until it was retaken by the Soviet Red Army on 6 November 1943.
After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Kiev in 1991 became the capital of independent Ukraine.
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 The American Thinker
No attempts to show solidarity with Jewish causes and to alleviate Jewish suffering with visits to victims of terror or to help fund food for hungry and unemployed Israelis.
Seventy-five delegates were arrested on the spot, thousands of members were sent to prison for counter-revolutionary… collusion in the interests of the Anglo-French bourgeoisie… to restore the Palestine state [i.e.
Hamas will “preserve the weapon of armed struggle and not relinquish it or give it away under any circumstances.
www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=3972   (2127 words)

  
 Theater Astonishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Examples of typical Baroque Art Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa Baroque theater In theater, the elaborate conceits, multiplicity of plot turns, and variety of situations characteristic of Mannerism (Shakespeare's tragedies for instance]]) are superseded by opera, which drew together all...
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Mass arrests of prominent Jewish intellectuals and suppression of Jewish culture follow under the...
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Bulgaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Northern Bulgaria attained autonomy in 1878 and all of Bulgaria became independent in 1908.
Communist domination ended in 1990, when Bulgaria held its first multiparty election since World War II and began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation, unemployment, corruption, and crime.
Bulgaria, a former communist country striving to enter the European Union, has experienced macroeconomic stability and strong growth since a major economic downturn in 1996 led to the fall of the then socialist government.
www.brainyatlas.com /geos/bu.html   (1094 words)

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