Center Makor presents an online series called “Sunny Side-Up & Show” with Marina Aptekman. The video above is part of the series on history, tradition and culture.

“Birobidzhan vs. Palestine” explores how the media in the Soviet Union in the 1930s created the myth of the new promised land for Jews, “flowing with milk and honey,” an alternative to Palestine, and how it all twisted into reality.

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