Editing Birobidzhan (section)

===Notable supporters of Birobidzhan===
[[File:The Soviet Union 1933 CPA 414 stamp (Peoples of the Soviet Union. Jews, Birobidzhan) cancelled.jpg|thumb|Jews of Birobidzhan in a 1933 "Peoples of the Soviet Union" postage stamp]]
Among Birobidzhan's proponents was [[Dudley Aman, 1st Baron Marley]]. After Lord Marley met Peter Smidovich and Jacob Tsegelnitski in August 1932, Marley became a proponent of Birobidzhan as a new homeland for Jewish workers and refugees. His visit to Birobidzhan in October 1933 was organised by Smidovich himself. Marley's assessment of the area was positive, and he became a more avid supporter of the settlement of Birobidzhan.<ref name=":1" />

Yiddish writer [[David Bergelson]] played a large part in promoting Birobidzhan, although he himself did not settle there permanently.<ref name="Gessen" /> Bergelson wrote articles in the Yiddish language newspapers in other countries extolling the region as an ideal escape from antisemitism elsewhere. At least 1,000 families from the United States and Latin America came to Birobidzhan because of Bergelson. On his 68th birthday in 1952, Bergelson was among those executed during Stalin's antisemitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans"<ref name="Gessen" /> following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.<ref name="Gessen" />{{rp|90}}

In the Russian language play ''Novaia rodina'' (''New Homeland'') by the Soviet playwright Victor Fink celebrated Birobidzhan as the coming together of three communities - the Koreans, the Amur Cossacks and the Jews. Each community has its own good and bad characters, but ultimately the good characters from each community learnt to cooperate and work with each other. To symbolise the unity achieved, the play ends with mixed marriages with one Jewish character marrying a Korean, another Jewish character marrying a Cossack and a Cossack marrying a Korean. Likewise, the Soviet Yiddish writer Emmanuil Kazakevich portrayed in a poem the achievement of Birobidzhan being declared the Jewish Autonomous Region on 7 May 1934 as an inter-communal event with the members of the Amur Cossack Host coming out to join the celebrations. Kazkevich's poem had a basis in reality as many members of the Amur Cossack Host hoped that Birobidzhan signalled Soviet interest in the neglected region along the banks of the Amur river.<ref>Estraikh, Gennady & Murav Harriet ''Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering'' Brighton: Academic Studies Press p.90</ref>

Canadian Arctic explorer [[Vilhjalmur Stefansson]] was vice president of Ambijan, or the ''American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan,'' which was a supplementary group that was combined with [[Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia|ICOR]] in 1946. His support of Birobidzhan as a new homeland for Jewish families consisted of appearing at meetings in support of the relocation of Jews to Birobidzhan as well as advocating for families who truly wished to travel rather than those who were the most suited for the journey.<ref name=":3" />