Editing Jewish Autonomous Oblast (section)

== Culture ==
JAO and its history have been portrayed in the documentary film ''[[L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin!]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kehr, Dave |author-link=Dave Kehr |date=January 31, 2003 |title=Film Review; When Soviet Jews Sought Paradise in Siberian Swamps and Snow |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/movies/film-review-when-soviet-jews-sought-paradise-in-siberian-swamps-and-snow.html |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Released in 2002, the film tells the story of [[Joseph Stalin]]'s creation of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and its partial settlement by thousands of [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Yiddish]] speaking [[Jew]]s. As well as relating the history of the creation of the proposed [[Jewish homeland]], the film features scenes of life in contemporary Birobidzhan and interviews with Jewish residents.