Anthem for the dream town

Birobidzhan has inspired a large number of cultural figures throughout the world to create numerous creative works in the field of literature and music. A lot of them were published in the 1930s: novels, poems and songs describing life in the Jewish Autonomous region. One of the most unique, but almost unknown to public works of such kind was Jacob Schafer’s large-scale musical creation - the oratorio «Birobidzhan».