The main entrance to the building of the State Jewish Theater. Birobidzhan. Mid-1930s
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
April 3, 1936
On the first page of the “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) for April 3, 1936, there is information about the naming of the State Theater of the Jewish Autonomous Region after Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich. The newspaper article refers to the resolution of the Regional Executive Committee of the Jewish Autonomous Region dated March 29, 1936, signed by the Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee I. Liberberg.
April 3, 1949
Clippings from the newspaper “Birobidzhan Star”. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
The first regional show of rural amateur theater performances (12+) took place, in which 14 drama groups from all districts of the region took part. An article by the Birobidzhan Star is dedicated to this event.
Along with one-act plays, large performances were also presented at the review. The best creative groups of the region were selected by the jury to participate in the regional show of rural amateur performances.
Performances of collective farm drama clubs took place in Birobidzhan in front of a crowded auditorium.
April 3, 1961
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU approved the commitments of the leading agricultural workers in the region. Lebedeva T.P., Zinovieva Z.T., Shubina A.M. and Lyubina N.V., who supported the initiative of the leading agricultural workers of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region. The advanced workers pledged to provide daily assistance to their comrades, mutually monitor each other, and act as active organizers of the introduction of best practices on farms, brigades, collective farms and state farms.
At the same meeting, the bureau of the regional committee of the CPSU and the executive committee of the regional Council of Workers' Deputies, the regional trade union and the regional committee of the Komsomol established a challenge Red Banner to encourage the winners of the school competition for the best organization of experimental work and the active participation of schoolchildren in agricultural production.
April 3, 1963
A meeting of the party activists of agricultural workers of the Jewish Autonomous Region was held, who discussed the results of the republican meeting of party committee secretaries and heads of collective and state farm production departments.
It was noted at the meeting that in 1962 the region fulfilled plans to sell bread, milk, meat and eggs to the state. During this time, the number of cattle increased by 8%, cows by 16% and pigs by 15%. The meeting adopted a resolution aimed at further development of agriculture in the region.
April 3, 1964
In the newspaper issue of the Birobidzhan Star for that day you can read a short article by N. Mirny “From the people and for the people.” It is dedicated to the concert (6+) of the Jewish singer Nechama Lifshitzite that took place in Birobidzhan. The concert program was large and varied: ancient and modern Jewish songs, dramatic and lyrical, genre and humorous.
Jewish singer Nechama Lifshitzite. Photo: Photo: Newspaper “Birobidzhaner Stern”
This is how the author of the material describes the concert:
“The theme of the struggle against war and fascism runs through the entire program. It reaches its culmination in a song based on the words of one of the prisoners of the Krakow ghetto, M. Gebirtik. And there is so much passionate inspiration in the singer’s voice that one can’t help but think: maybe brave women, in an hour of tragic necessity, raised desperate people who had lost the will to resist to a mortal battle with the enemy.”
“The general tonality of the concert – and I want to emphasize this – is major, life-affirming. In popular folk songs, the artist, with remarkable vocal skill, with an impeccable sense of proportion in gesture and facial expressions, creates the most subtle images and scenes, small dramas, comedies and poems from folk life. She performs children's songs with special warmth and sincerity.
And all this in its own way, outwardly very modest, restrained, but with that depth of comprehension that distinguishes true originality. That is why something that is well known, sung and re-sung, is perceived as being heard for the first time.”
The concert of Nechama Lifshitsaite became a cultural event in Birobidzhan.
