Birofeld (; ) is a

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('' selo'') in

Birobidzhansky District Birobidzhansky District (, ) is an administrativeLaw #982-OZ and municipalLaw #227-OZ district (raion), one of the five in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center of the autonomous oblast. The area of the district is . ...

of the

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. It is an early Jewish settlement, which was founded in 1928 when a large

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was established in the area. In 2003, a Jewish Book Festival took place here. In 2006,

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of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast,

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, visited Birofeld with the

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Birobidzhan Birobidzhan ( rus, Биробиджан, p=bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan; , ), also spelt Birobijan ( ), is a town and the administrative centre of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway, near the China–Russia bord ...

. As of 2007, some of the original Jewish

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s still lived here.The 2nd Birobidzhan International Summer Yiddish Program
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Rural localities in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Historic Jewish communities Populated places established in 1928 Yiddish culture in Russia {{JewishAutonomousOblast-geo-stub

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