"This wonderful work provides an introduction and detailed statistics for researchers at all levels" (from the Choice review by L. Lampert).

2 vols. "Provides a clear overview and examination of anti-Semitism, with 650 double-column entries by over 200 contributors from 21 countries [...] written by top scholars in the field" (from the Library Journal review by Paul Kaplan).

Slavic Reference Non-circulating
The introduction to this bibliography gives a historical overview of Jews in the Soviet Union. The table of contents is in English and divides into 9 subjects. Most citations are for books, including 52 bibliographies. There is an index of authors and titles of anonymous works.

Online version of the 2 volume original. Signed articles, many extensive, with bibliographies. Online version supplemented with maps, photographs, sound recordings, and other digitized artefacts.

Robert Weinberg and Bradley Berman's carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thousand miles east of Moscow, was designated the national homeland of Soviet Jewry. Establishing the Jewish Autonomous Region was part of the Kremlin's plan to create an enclave where secular Jewish culture rooted in Yiddish and socialism could serve as an alternative to Palestine. The Kremlin also considered the region a solution to various perceived problems besetting Soviet Jews. Birobidzhan still exists today, but despite its continued official status Jews are a small minority of the inhabitants of the region. Drawing upon documents from archives in Moscow and Birobidzhan, as well as photograph collections never seen outside Birobidzhan, Weinberg's story of the Soviet Zion sheds new light on a host of important historical and contemporary issues regarding Jewish identity, community, and culture. Given the persistence of the "Jewish question" in Russia, the history of Birobidzhan provides an unusual point of entry into examining the fate of Soviet Jewry under communist rule.