The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics

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The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politicsexamines the conflict between the Israeli government and the organized American Jewish community over the final destination of Soviet Jewish émigrés between 1967 and 1989. Until 1989 most Soviet Jews wanting to immigrate to the United States left on visas for Israel via Vienna. The Freedom Sunday rally coalesced a decadeslong struggle for Soviet Jewry that began in 1964 when Elie Wiesels The Jews of Silence shined a light on the more than two million Jews throughout.

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In sharp contrast Lazins The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment 4 presents a very different picture of Jewish leaders and organizations in the 1970s and 1980s. Until 1989 most Soviet Jews wanting to immigrate to the United States left on visas for Israel via Vienna. Action for Soviet Jewry was founded in 1975 in the Boston area as a grassroots organization in response to the struggle of Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate and to live freely as Jews. New York Popular Library 1971 Murray Friedman and Albert D. American Soviet Jewry Movement Photographs Collection represents a selection of photographs from various collections housed within the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement AASJM. the American Jewish Conference. These papers reflect the effort beginning in the 1960s through the late 1980s of thousands of American Jews of all denominations and political orientations to stop the persecution and discrimination of Jews in the Soviet Union. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment Studies in Public Policy Kindle edition by Lazin Fred A.. the Soviet Jewry movement from the 1960s to the 1980s included Peter Goldens O Powerful Western Star Frederick Lazins The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics and Gal Beckermans When They Come for Us Well be Gone. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics Israel Versus the American Jewish Establishment. Lanham Lexington Books 2005. xii 336 pp. In the 1970s ucsj established itself as the principal grassroots and activist component of the Soviet Jewry.