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A “zoo” and “mock-up”: On the most frequent ways of portraying BirobidzhanThe article analyses the most common ways of depicting Birobidzhan by journalists, bloggers, film-makers and writers. Established in 1934, The Jewish Autonomous Region is an administrative unit within the Russian Federation. Foreign visitors and visitors from other parts of Russia usually perceive it as “exotic”, “funny”, “absurd”,...
In this article the authoress analyses modern politics of representation in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia. Having discussed the conditions on which the region was established as a 'socialist, Jewish motherland' and based on ethnographic observations made in autumn 2008, she shows the use of the 'Jewishness' representation to achieve temporary political goals. The local politics of representation...
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