A collection of stories, sketches and poems by Jewish writers, depicting the development in recent years of the Far Eastern Amur region in Russian Siberia, where the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidjan is located, has been published by the regional Soviet publishing house in Khabarovsk, it was announced at the Soviet Embassy here today.
The book, issued “in a large edition,” contains literary material “describing the great transformation of the once-deserted Amur territory into a highly developed and prosperous area, and the part played by the Jewish Autonomous Region in this transformation,” the Embassy stated.
The press department of the Soviet Embassy described the book as “well illustrated.” The language in which the book is published was not mentioned, but it is certain here that the book is in Russian, and not in Yiddish.
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