Authors: Stuart Altshuler
ISBN-13: 9780742549357, ISBN-10: 0742549356
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Between 1967 and 1991, almost half of the entire Jewish population of the Soviet Union left for freedom to Israel, the United States, and other western countries. From Exodus to Freedom: The History of the Soviet Jewry Movement tells the story of the American Jewish community's involvement in this exodus. It is the first work of its kind to explore how such a massive emigration occurred for a population virtually written-off by world Jewry as _doomed_ just two decades before.
Ch. 1 | The Soviet Jewry movement in America in historical perspective | 1 |
Ch. 2 | The Soviet Jewry movement before 1985 : Gorbachev and a new chapter for Soviet Jews | 27 |
Ch. 3 | The U.S. government and the Soviet Jewry movement in America | 35 |
Ch. 4 | Tactics and strategy of the Soviet Jewry movement | 75 |
Ch. 5 | American Jewry chooses : Aliya or rescue | 119 |
Ch. 6 | The last months | 167 |