Komzet (Russian: Комитет по земельному устройству еврейских трудящихся, КОМЗЕТ) was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union aiming to help impoverished and persecuted Jewish population of the former Pale of Settlement to adopt agricultural labor. Other goals of the Komzet were getting financial assistance from the world Jewry and providing the Soviet Jews an alternative to Zionism. The Pale of Settlement (Russian: Черта оседлости - cherta osedlosti) was a western border region of Imperial Russia in which permanent residence of Jews was allowed, extending from the pale or demarcation line, to near the border with eastern/central Europe. ... Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tefutzah, or Galut, exile) refers to the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the world. ... For other meanings, please see Zionism (disambiguation) Poster promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s: Toward a New Life (in Romanian),The Promised Land (in Hungarian) 1844 Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews by Mordecai Noah, page one. ...

Established in 1921, it was headed by Pyotr Smidovich. 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1924-1926, the Komzet helped to create several Jewish kolkhozes in various regions, most notably in the Crimea, Ukraine and Stavropol region. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A kolkhoz   listen? (Russian: колхо́з) was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms or sovkhozes. ... The Crimea are a British band. ... Stone Cross of Stavropol, symbol of the city Stavropol (Ста́врополь) is a city located in south-western Russia. ...

In 1927, Birsko-Bidzhansky region in the Russian Far East was identified as a territory suitable for compact living of the Soviet Jews. The region would become the Jewish Autonomous Oblast but it did not attract mass Jewish resettlement. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term Russian Far East (Russian: Да́льний Восто́к Росси́и; English transliteration: Dalny Vostok Rossii) refers to the extreme south-east parts of Russia, between Siberian Federal District and the Pacific. ... Capital Birobidzhan Area - total - % water 64th - 36,000 km² - no data Population - Total - Density 80th - est. ...

See also

• History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Yevsektsiya

The vast territories of the Russian Empire once hosted the largest Jewish population in the world. ... American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is a United States Jewish Jews, but also gentiles in more than 85 countries worldwide. ... Yevsektsiya (alternative spelling: Yevsektsia), Russian: ЕвСекция, the abbreviation of the phrase Еврейская секция (Yevreyskaya sektsiya) was the Jewish section of the Soviet Communist party created to challenge and eventually destroy the rival Bund and Zionist parties, suppress Judaism and bourgeois nationalism and replace traditional Jewish culture with proletarian culture, as...

External links

• Joseph Rosen's papers at the JDC