Birobidzhaner Shtern

The Birobidzhaner Shtern (Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַנער שטערן; Russian: Биробиджанер Штерн Birobidžaner Štern; "The Birobidzhan Star") is a newspaper published in both Yiddish[1] and Russian in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia. It was set up in November 1930 in Birobidzhan[2] to cater for the newly arrived Jewish immigrants. Henekh Kazakevich was first editor of the newspaper. Emmanuil Kazakevich was an author and staff member of the newspaper in 1935–1938. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast had been set up by the Soviet government in an attempt to resolve the Jewish Question and provide an alternative to the Zionist Jewish experience offered later by Israel. The publication was interrupted in 1949 and continued since 1952. Birobidzhaner Shtern is the only newspaper in today's Russia that contains a section in Yiddish.

Birobidzhaner Shtern

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	A3
Editor-in-chief	Yelena Sarashevskaya
Founded	November 1930
Language	Yiddish, Russian
Country	Russia
Website	gazetaeao.ru
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The newspaper features Yiddish articles written by contributors from different countries. Mordechai Scheiner, a Yiddish speaker and the former Chief Rabbi for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and head of the Birobidzhan Synagogue, and additional Jewish settlements such as Valdgeym. was one of the paper's readers and supporters. The current rabbi, Eli Riss[3], was born in the city and supports Yiddish activities in Birobidzhan.