The Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia

Please consider supporting this channel via Patreon, by accessing the link bellow. Any contribution is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
https://www.patreon.com/7facts

Social Media:
https://twitter.com/Sebastian2Go
https://www.facebook.com/official7facts
------------------------------------------------
More information about the video content bellow:
1. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a federal subject of Russia in the Russian Far East. Article 65 of the Constitution of Russia provides that the JAO is Russia's only autonomous oblast. It is one of two official Jewish territories in the world, the other being Israel. As of the 2010 Census, JAO's population was 176,558 people, or 0.1% of the total population of Russia. By 2010, according to data provided by the Russian Census Bureau, there were only 1,628 Jews remaining in the JAO (less than 1% of the population), while ethnic Russians made up 92.7% of the JAO population. Judaism is practiced by only 0.2% of the population of the JAO.

2. This rarely visited province was established by Stalin as an attempt to boost the population of the Soviet Far East as well as to appease Zionist movements within the USSR (which were contradictory to Soviet dogma). The Oblast's "Jewish" status has led to some odd Soviet-Jewish art, such as the menorah monument in the city center, but did not lead to mass Jewish immigration - Jews constitute only about 2% (although there are some reports that is is up to 16%) of this region's population.

3. Birobidzhan is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

4. Despite considerable efforts made by the Soviet authorities and foreign aid, the development of the region was very slow. The Soviet leadership hoped that the Jewish population of the Birsko-Bidzhan district would reach 60,000 by 1933 and 150,000 by 1938. However, in 1928-1929, only 2,825 Jews came to the region, of whom 1,725 left Birobidzhan by the end of 1929.In 1928-1934, 19,635 Jews arrived in Birobidzhan and 11,450 left it. The project of the relocation of Jews from abroad failed completely. Only 500 foreigners arrived in the region, including 80 from Argentina and 150 from Lithuania.

5. There is a project to join the EAO to the Khabarovsk Territory . Another proposal is the accession of the EAO to the Amur Region with the formation of the Amur Region. Among the local media and some Jewish public organizations, there are opponents of projects to abolish the EA (for example, Birobidzhaner Stern and EAOmedia and supporters of its further development as an original Jewish administrative entity. The project for the abolition of the EAO continues to be actively discussed.

6. One of the stranger parts of Birobidzhan’s story is that although it was meant as a Jewish statelet, religious Judaism was alien to Soviet atheism and thus frowned upon. The local museum contains Yiddish leaflets warning locals not to celebrate Passover, and Sarashevskaya leafed through back issues of Birobidzhan Shtern from the 1980s, pointing out that although the newspaper was in Yiddish it contained no discussion of either Judaism or Israel.

7. If the local government gets its way, more Jews would move to the region, especially some of those who left in the early 1990s. Rostislav Goldstein, the senator for the region in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said Birobidzhan’s proximity to China could provide advantages for Israeli businesses wanting to crack the Chinese market.

More Info:
https://wikitravel.org/en/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birobidzhan

Music:
Teknoaxe - Aerobatics in Slow Motion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfaXFyNOi_M
Download Music: http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1496

Images:
By Unknown - From russian wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1456330
Автор: неизвестен - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Government-hq.jpg, Общественное достояние, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6959926
By Andshel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18697415
By Glucke - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6662823
By Stasyan117 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39714407
http://v2.travelark.org/travel-blog-entry/crowdywendy/8/1496994608
Автор: сам лично - сам лично, CC0 1.0, https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3940292

Intro Creator:
Pushed to Insanity
http://pushedtoinsanity.com/portfolio-item/free-2d-outro-template-11/

Видео The Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia канала Sebastian ioan