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We read an article from __Jewish Currents__ (July-Aug. 2006 issue, pages 116-18) titled “Birobidzhan: A Remnant of History. The Jewish Autonomous Region in the Russian Far East.” Yiddish culture in Siberia under Lenin; activism in 1920s-1930s; Stalin’s repression of Jews and of Yiddish; decline of Birobidzhan, Revival today of this region, with Yiddish being restored and increasingly a common language there; 4,000-6,000 Jews still there.