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Komzet () was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union aiming to help impoverished and persecuted Jewish population of the former Pale of Settlement to adopt agricultural labor. Other goals of the Komzet were getting financial assistance from the world Jewry and providing the Soviet Jews an alternative to Zionism. The Komzet was 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 service. The funds were to be provided by private donations, charities and lotteries. Established in 1921, Komzet was headed by Pyotr Smidovich. In 1924-1926, the Komzet helped to create several Jewish kolkhozes in various regions, most notably in the 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 mass Jewish resettlement.
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