Birobidzhaner

From Birobidzhan +‎ -er.

Birobidzhaner (plural Birobidzhaners)

1. A native or inhabitant of Birobidzhan.
   • 1981, Israel Emiot [pseudonym; Israel Goldwasser], translated by Max Rosenfeld, “On the road to penal servitude”, in The Birobidzhan Affair: A Yiddish Writer in Siberia, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jewish Publication Society of America, →ISBN, page 62:

     In the Khabarovsk prison too there must have been other Jews beside the Birobidzhaners, but they never were placed in the same cells with us.

   • 2001, Miriam Weinstein, “The Soviet Union: Marching and Singing to Birobidzhan”, in Yiddish: A Nation of Words, South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, →ISBN, part 2 (The Modern Era), page 106:

     Still, Birobidzhaners could count on state funding to create many of their own Yiddish institutions.

   • 2023, Gennady Estraikh, “Growing Pains”, in The History of Birobidzhan: Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia (Russian Shorts), London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 43:

     Young Birobidzhaners were bemused when a group of ethnically Slavic subbotniks, or Sabbatarians, settled in one of the villages of the JAR, but would not work on Saturday, because they were committed to living by Biblical law.