When they come for us, we'll be gone : the epic struggle to save Soviet Jewry

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    • Beckerman, Gal

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When they come for us, we'll be gone : the epic struggle to save Soviet Jewry

Gal Beckerman

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Journalist Gal Beckerman draws on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews with refuseniks, activists, Zionist "hooligans," and Congressional staffers. He shows not only how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989, but also how it shaped the American Jewish community, giving it a renewed sense of spiritual purpose and teaching it to flex its political muscle. He also makes a convincing case that the movement put human rights at the centre of American foreign policy for the very first time, helping to end the Cold War. In cinematic detail, the book introduces us to all the major players, from the flamboyant Meir Kahane, head of the paramilitary Jewish Defence League, to Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky, who laboured in a Siberian prison camp for over a decade, to Lynn Singer, the small, fiery Long Island housewife who went from organizing local rallies to strong-arming Soviet diplomats. This multi-generational saga, filled with suspense and packed with revelations, provides an essential missing piece of Cold War and Jewish history.

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