Research Catalog

Title

Triumph over tyranny : the heroic campaigns that saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews / Philip Spiegel ; foreword by Natan Sharansky.

Author

Spiegel, Philip.

Publication

[Melon Park, CA] : Philip Spiegel, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shcharansky, Anatoly

Description

551 p.

Summary

The history of the Jewish resistance in Russia and the government backed anti-Semitism that tried to obliterate every form of Jewish self-awareness. Traces the success of the heroes of this movement, people like Anatoly Sharansky, who became living legends in Russia, Israel, the United States and the world.

Subjects

• History
• Jews > Political activity
• Refuseniks
• Jews > Soviet Union > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Natan Sharansky -- Prologue: Theodor Herzl and the Zionist dream -- pt. 1. EARLY EFFORTS TO SAVE THE "JEWS OF SILENCE" 1920-1967. The Bolshevik Campaign to eradicate Judaism -- Chabad's clandestine activities to keep Judaism alive -- Secret operations sponsored by the Israeli government -- Western voices for the Jews of silence -- Sowing the seeds of a grassroots movement -- Mobilizing a critical mass in New York -- pt. 2. SOVIET JEWISH RESISTANCE AND RENAISSANCE 1967-1990. I am a Jew and Israel is my homeland -- The foiled hijacking that launched and international movement -- You will never leave the Soviet Union -- Teach Hebrew, go to prison -- The Refusenik community casts its own safety nets -- pt. 3. THE HUMAN RIGHTS CONNECTION 1968-1986. Andrei Sakharov, champion of human rights -- The Helsinki watch groups -- Natan Sharansky, prisoner of Zion, spokesman for democracy -- pt. 4. SUPPORT GROUPS IN THE FREE WORLD 1967-2007. Two conferences on Soviet Jewry -- Grassroots activism in California -- The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews -- Support from American Christian and Jewish clergy -- European activism for Soviet Jewry -- Support from the medical and scientific communities -- HIAS support for Soviet Jews going to America -- pt. 5. AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT 1972-2007. U.S. Congressional action links trade to emigration -- The Congressional human rights caucus -- Advocacy from Reagan's State Department -- pt. 6. POST-SOVIET CAMPAIGNS 1991-2007. Help my people go -- Let my people know -- Let my people go -- Let my people know -- Let my people live -- Aliyah activist Memorial in Israel.

ISBN

• 9781615849383
• 1615849386

OCLC

• 820554659
• SCSB-11060551

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library