Almanac Birobidzhan 2024
On September 13, 2024, the official Russian TV channel Bira presented a new episode of its Yiddish-oriented weekly program Yiddishkeit dedicated to the recently published 19th issue of the annual almanac Birobidzhan — a book-sized 260-page journal largely devoted to the 90th anniversary of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia, established by the Soviet government in 1934.
The almanac includes a large Yiddish section, featuring historical poetry of Birobidzhan authors and a science fiction story by Yoel Matveyev, a St. Petersburg-based contemporary Yiddish writer. The Russian part contains an anthology of poems about tayga translated from Yiddish. Besides unique and diverse historical materials written in both languages, this year’s issue of the almanac also contains two separate art sections.