Birobidzhaner Shtern

Birobidzhaner Shtern

Founded	November 1930 1944
Language	Yiddish, Russian
Ceased publication	1941
Country	Russia
Media of Russia List of newspapers

The Birobidzhaner Shtern (Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאנער שטערן; Russian: Биробиджанер Штерн Birobidžaner Štern; "The Birobidzhan Star") is a newspaper published in both Yiddish and Russian in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia. It was set up in November 1930 in Birobidzhan to cater for the newly arrived Jewish immigrants. Henekh Kazakevich was first editor of the newspaper. Emmanuil Kazakevich was an author and staff member of the newspaper in 1935-1938. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast had been set up by the Soviet government in an attempt to resolve the Jewish Question and provide an alternative to the Zionist Jewish experience offered by Israel. The paper also has the advantage of the arrival of Mordechai Scheiner, a Yiddish speaker and the new Chief Rabbi for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and head of the Birobidzhan Synagogue, [1] and additional Jewish settlements such as Valdgeym.[2] [3]

See also

• Jews and Judaism in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
• History of the Jews in Russia and Soviet Union
• Yevsektsiya
• Yiddishkeit (TV show)