Auction 103 Winner's Unlimited - Holy books, letters from Rabbis and Rebbes, Judaica, Maps, Periodicals, Postcards, banknotes, Eretz Israel
Nov 29, 2017
Israel
 3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem
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LOT 161:

Placard calling for Jewish workers to settle in Birobidzshan. USSR. C. 1940s

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Placard calling for Jewish workers to settle in Birobidzshan. USSR. C. 1940s

Placard calling for refugee Jewish workers, singles and families, to settle in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Birobidzshan. Ukraine, c. 1940s. Yiddish and Russian.

Placard from "HaChaver" and the organized societies in the Ukraine announcing the absorption of Jewish World War II refugees in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, with a list of needed professionals: tailors, brick manufacturers, tractor drivers, factory workers, mechanics and more. Yiddish was the official language of the region, but some changes were made, such as the omission of the "ending letters" - as seen in this placard. 

Background: Birobidzshan was the capital city of what was planned to be the "Jewish Autonomous Oblast" established in 1934 in the Russian Far East - on the border with China. Persecution of the local Jewish leaders and the closure of Jewish institutions per Stalin's orders in the 1930s, made it difficult to absorb Jews in the region. After the Second World War, the Soviet Union tried reviving the Jewish settlement in the region as a solution for refugees - as indicated in this placard. Another wave of persecution initiated by Stalin, which targeted Jewish leaders and harmed the Jewish institutions, brought an end to this Jewish project.

This placard is not in the National Library.

[1] leaf. 41x35 cm. Yiddish and Russian in parallel columns.

Fold marks. Short tears on the side of the leaf, not affecting text.

Very fine condition.

 


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