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Birobidzhaner
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English
Etymology
From en Birobidzhan er<id:inhabitant>.
Noun
en Birobidzhan.
en 1981 Israel Emiot pseudonym; Israel Goldwasser Max Rosenfeld On the road to penal servitude The Birobidzhan Affair: A Yiddish Writer in Siberia Philadelphia, Pa. Jewish Publication Society of America 62 https://archive.org/details/birobidzhanaffai00emio_0/page/62/mode/1up 0-8276-0191-3 In the Khabarovsk prison too there must have been other Jews beside the Birobidzhaners, but they never were placed in the same cells with us.
en 2001 Miriam Weinstein The Soviet Union: Marching and Singing to Birobidzhan Yiddish: A Nation of Words South Royalton, Vt. Steerforth Press part 2 (The Modern Era) 106 https://archive.org/details/yiddishnationofw0000wein/page/106/mode/1up 1-58642-027-5 Still, Birobidzhaners could count on state funding to create many of their own Yiddish institutions.
en 2023 Gennady Estraikh Growing Pains The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia Russian Shorts London Bloomsbury Academic 43 https://books.google.com/books?id=PK2iEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 978-1-3502-9624-4 Young Birobidzhaners were bemused when a group of ethnically Slavic subbotniks, or Sabbatarians, settled in one of the villages of the JAR, but would not work on Saturday, because they were committed to living by Biblical law.