In case you missed it, Jews did not have to go to Palestine to live and survive the war. They already had a homeland. A New Zion. Identity is a complex issue in the quixotic Jewish homeland established by Stalin here in the mosquito-infested swampland of Russia’s Far East, some 20 years before the founding of Israel. While the big menorah standing outside the railroad station, the Yiddish street signs and ubiquitous Stars of David give Birobidzhan the veneer of a Jewish Disneyland, the city often seems to have the religious authenticity of a pizza bagel with pepperoni. nytimes/2012/10/04/world/europe/jewish-homeland-in-birobidzhan-russia-retains-appeal.html?pagewanted=all
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