>From: frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: JAR
>Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:05:19 -0700
>
>regarding the jewish autonomist republic, from Bill Mandel:
>
>"The JAR was founded in 1934. By 1946 it was clear that very, very few
>Soviet Jews wanted to go there, for the excellent reason that the end of
>
>the 100+ discriminatory laws under tsarism enabled most of them to feel
>that where they were was as good as they could expect. As the chapter in
>
>my book you finally got makes clear, they held about 10% of all
>prestigious positions in the USSR, while being one per cent of the
>population.
> In 1946 I said that to an audience of 600 at the American Birobidjan
>Committee (Birobidjan is the unofficial name of the JAR) in Los Angeles,
>
>which had brought me across the country for the purpose, and was very
>disappointed at what they heard.
> Today there are about 10,000 Jewish people there, a small minority of
>
>the population of the area still officially the JAR, and only one per
>cent of the Jews in Russia."
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