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The opening as it read in 2010

Komzet (Russian: Ком итет по з емельному устройству е врейских т рудящихся, КОМЗЕТ ) was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land (some English sources use the word "working" instead of "toiling") in the Soviet Union . The primary goal of the Komzet was to help impoverished and persecuted Jewish population of the former Pale of Settlement to adopt agricultural labor. Other goals were getting financial assistance from the Jewish diaspora and providing the Soviet Jews an alternative to Zionism .¹ Threshing in the fields in a Jewish kolkhoz, c. 1930 The Komzet was a government committee whose function was to contribute and distribute the land for new kolkhozes . A complementary public society, the OZET was established in order to assist in moving settlers to a new location, housebuilding, irrigation, training, providing them with cattle and agricultural tools, education, medical and cultural services. The funds were to be provided by private donations, charities and lotteries. Established in 1921, Komzet was headed by P. In 1924-1926, the Komzet helped to create several Jewish kolkhozes in various regions, most notably in Crimea , Ukraine and Stavropol region. 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 the expected mass Jewish resettlement.²

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The opening as it stood in 2015

Komzet (Russian: Ком итет по з емельному устройству е врейских т рудящихся, КОМЗЕТ ) was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land (some English sources use the word "working" instead of "toiling") in the Soviet Union . The primary goal of the Komzet was to help impoverished and persecuted Jewish population of the former Pale of Settlement to adopt agricultural labor. Other goals were getting financial assistance from the Jewish diaspora and providing the Soviet Jews an alternative to Zionism . Threshing in the fields in a Jewish kolkhoz, c. 1930 The Komzet was a government committee whose function was to contribute and distribute the land for new kolkhozes . A complementary public society, the OZET was established in order to assist in moving settlers to a new location, housebuilding, irrigation, training, providing them with cattle and agricultural tools, education, medical and cultural services. The funds were to be provided by private donations, charities and lotteries. Established in 1921, Komzet was headed by P. In 1924-1926, the Komzet helped to create several Jewish kolkhozes in various regions, most notably in Crimea , Ukraine and Stavropol region. 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 the expected mass Jewish resettlement. Komzet was abolished in 1938, as part of the process of dismantling almost all central nationalities institutions.

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The opening as it stood in 2020 8 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

Soviet Jewish organization Threshing in the fields in a Jewish kolkhoz, c. 1930 Komzet (Russian: Ком итет по з емельному устройству е врейских т рудящихся , КОМЗЕТ ) was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land (some English sources use the word "working" instead of "toiling") in the Soviet Union . The primary goal of the Komzet was to help impoverished and persecuted Jewish population of the former Pale of Settlement to adopt agricultural labor. Other goals were getting financial assistance from the Jewish diaspora and providing the Soviet Jews an alternative to Zionism .

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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023

Soviet Jewish organization Threshing in the fields in a Jewish kolkhoz, c. 1930 Komzet (Russian: Комитет по з емельному устройству е врейских т рудящихся , КОМЗЕТ ) was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land (some English sources use the word "working" instead of "toiling") in the Soviet Union . The primary goal of the Komzet was to help impoverished and persecuted Jewish population of the former Pale of Settlement to adopt agricultural labor. Other goals were getting financial assistance from the Jewish diaspora and providing the Soviet Jews an alternative to Zionism .

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The opening as it stood in 2025 2 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

Soviet Jewish organization Threshing in the fields in a Jewish kolkhoz, c. 1930 Komzet ( Russian : Комитет по з емельному устройству е врейских т рудящихся , КОМЗЕТ ) was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land (some English sources use the word "working" instead of "toiling") in the Soviet Union . The primary goal of the Komzet was to provide work for the unemployed agricultural Jewish population of the country.

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