Title: The Jewish movement in the Soviet Union /
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jews Soviet Union History Congresses.; Jews Soviet Union Social conditions Congresses.; Jews Persecutions Soviet Union History Congresses.; Jews Soviet Union Politics and government Congresses.; Refuseniks Congresses.; Soviet Union Emigration and immigration Government policy Congresses.; Soviet Union Ethnic relations Congresses.
Contents: From disaffection to political opportunity and activism / Yaacov Ro'i -- The surfacing of the Jewish movement / Yaacov Ro'i -- Strategy and tactics / Yaacov Ro'i -- The achievements of the Jewish movement / Yaacov Ro'i -- The impact of the Holocaust and the state of Israel on Soviet Jewish identity / Irena Cantorovich and Nati Cantorovich -- Born under the same star : refuseniks, dissidents, and late socialist society / Juliane Fürst -- Behind the scenes : the attitude of the regime and society toward Jewish emigration / Edith Rogovin Frankel -- Human rights and national rights : the interaction of the Jewish movement with other dissident groups / Yaacov Ro'i and Joshua Rubenstein -- Voices from the inside : Jewish activists' memoirs, 1967-1989 / Stefani Hoffman -- The Zionist family / Theodore H. Friedgut -- Jewish samizdat : dissident texts and the dynamics of the Jewish revival in the Soviet Union / Ann Komaromi -- Judaism and the Jewish movement / Simeon Charny -- The teaching and study of Hebrew / Ari Volvosky -- How the movement was funded / Michael Beizer -- Friends abroad : how the western campaign for Soviet Jews influenced activists in the Soviet Union / Sarah Fainberg -- The United States in the movement's triumph / George P. Shultz.