TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS vii
4. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
5. PREFACE xiii
6. INTRODUCTION: AMERICAN JEWS, COMMUNISM, THE ICOR AND BIROBIDZHAN 1
7. THE FORMATION OF AMBIJAN 29
8. THE “PEOPLE’S DELEGATION” AND THE POPULAR FRONT, 1935-1939 55
9. WARTIME AID TO THE SOVIET UNION: THE ICOR 83
10. WARTIME AID TO THE SOVIET UNION: AMBIJAN 101
11. THE POSTWAR ORPHANS' CAMPAIGN AND THE AMBIJAN-ICOR MERGER 119
12. THE GLORY YEARS, 1946-1948 139
13. AMBIJAN AND THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL 165
14. THE GATHERING STORM: MCCARTHYISM, COLD WAR, AND DECLINE 189
15. ISLANDS OF RESISTANCE, 1949-1950 215
16. CONCLUSION: FROM HOPE TO HOAX 229
17. APPENDIX: PAUL NOVICK’S 1936 VISIT TO THE JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION 249
18. APPENDIX: GEORGE KOVAL 253
19. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 255
20. INDEX 283