"A small minority" — this is how the Soviet party functionaries in Moscow defined the Jewish population of Siberia in the early 1920s, but the Jews themselves outside the Urals held a different opinion. Victoria Gerasimova's monograph explores the attempts of Siberian Jews to defend their right to national and cultural self-determination in the conditions of the nascent Soviet state. Based on an extensive corpus of previously unknown sources from the archives and museums of Siberia, Moscow and Jerusalem, the author analyzes the political identity, cultural landmarks and survival strategies of the Jewish communities of Siberia in the 1920s. The monograph will be useful to historians, local historians, journalists and anyone interested in history.