Michael Breshnel, war veteran, Birobidzhan
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Michael Breshnel, war veteran, Birobidzhan
In 1934 the Soviet government established the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, in a sparsely populated area some 8000 kilometres east of Moscow, designating it as the national homeland of Soviet Jewry. Influenced by an
effective propaganda campaign, and starvation in the east, 41,000 Soviet Jews relocated to the area between the late 1920s and early 1930s. Today most of the Jewish population have left for Israel, Europe or the USA.
Motherland
October 2004
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 22.8 x 18.1 cm
Overall: 25.3 x 20.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0022
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 031 +3 +0 +0 +0 031.tif (1) 10:21:43
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 031 +3 +0 +0 +0 031.tif (1) 10:21:43
