Dreams of Nationhood

Henry Srebrnik (PhD, University of Birmingham, England) is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. His most recent books include Jerusalem on the Amur: Birobidzhan and the Canadian Jewish Communist Movement, 1924-1951 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008) and London Jews and British Communism, 1935-1945 (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1995) He also served on the editorial team for De Facto States: The Quest For Sovereignty (London: Routledge, 2004) with Tozun Bahcheli and Barry Bartmann.

• Abbreviations. List of Illustrations. Introduction: American Jews, Communism, the ICOR and Birobidzhan. The Formation of Ambijan. The "People's Delegation" and the Popular Front, 1935-1939. Wartime Aid to the Soviet Union: the ICOR. Wartime Aid to the Soviet Union: Ambijan. the Postwar Orphans' Campaign and the Ambijan-ICOR Merger. The Glory Years, 1946-1948. Ambijan and the Creation of Israel. The Gathering Storm: McCarthyism, Cold War, and Decline. Islands of Resistance, 1949-1950. Conclusion: From Hope to Hoax. Appendix: Paul Novick's 1936 Visit to the Jewish Autonomous Region. Appendix: George Koval. Selected Bibliography. Index.

“Henry Srebrnik began his research of the place of Birobidzhan in the ideological space of American Jews over a decade ago. I believe I have read the majority of his publications on this fascinating and little-known topic, and this new book, Dreams of Nationhood, is the best among them.”