ronically, the trauma of the Second World War breathed life again into the Jewish Autonomous Region, as it did into Soviet Jewish society in general. In 1945 the government once again revived the idea of Jewish migration to the region in order to address the problems confronting Soviet Jews in the wake of the war. Between 1946 and 1948, perhaps as many as 10,000 Jews moved to the Jewish Autonomous Region. Estimates indicate that as many as 30,000 Jews were living in the region by the end of 1948.