In the book “Birobidzhan - the Promised Land,” the famous St. Petersburg writer Alexander Melikhov talks about the creation of the Jewish Autonomous Region in the USSR. How was a project carried out, which involved equal parts high romance and Bolshevik demagoguery? What came out of the idea of creating a new homeland for the Jews, and what disappeared without a trace? What actually resulted from the most impressive and instructive attempt of the Bolsheviks to adapt Jewry to the “new life”? The interested reader will find answers to these and many other questions in this book.