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Jonas Bendiksen - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The Star of David is scribbled on a broken apartment block window. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The Star of David is scribbled on a broken apartment block window.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. People waiting for the morning bus in the freezing winter, which often reaches -40 Celcius. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Streetscene. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. A man in a cafe. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Streetscene. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Streetscene - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Bart Simpson and busty girls share space with the hammer and sickle in a local's living room. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Years of economic decline hit Birobidzhan hard, leaving pensioners without pay for months. Grandfather Yasha picks the day's last crumb. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Marik Khoddus, a Birobidzhani Jew in his home, shortly before emigrating to Israel. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. A young Jewish girl and her elders arguing. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Any person who could prove their Jewish heritage received a free ticket to Israel - causing nearly all the Jewish population to pack up. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. A Russian Jewish teenager at an Israel-sponsored summer camp. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Birobidzhan's first Rabbi in years, who was only 18 years old. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia. Every week, hundreds of Birobidzhani Jews left for Israel, once again in search of a Jewish homeland and a better life. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. 1999. The first Jewish homeland of modern time, created 20 years before Israel, located in Far-East Siberia.

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, The Jewish Autonomous Region. - RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia. 1999. Stalin looks out on his creation while Raisa sews. - Jonas Bendiksen

RUSSIA. Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia. 1999. Stalin looks out on his creation while Raisa sews.

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