Panel discussion with Ami Eden, Glenn Richter, David (A.) Harris, and Gal Beckerman at Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, NY. Introduction by Rabbi Shaul Robinson. Moderated by Eden of Jewish Te... Show morePanel discussion with Ami Eden, Glenn Richter, David (A.) Harris, and Gal Beckerman at Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, NY. Introduction by Rabbi Shaul Robinson. Moderated by Eden of Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Beckerman is author of "When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone" (2010), a chronicle of the Soviet Jewry movement. Harris is executive director of the American Jewish Committee. The panel is followed by Q & A with the audience. Show less
Interview with Dubow Harris, activist with Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (known as the 35's) in Montreal, Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry (Mo'atsah ha-tsiburit lema'an Yehude Berit ha-Mo... Show moreInterview with Dubow Harris, activist with Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (known as the 35's) in Montreal, Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry (Mo'atsah ha-tsiburit lema'an Yehude Berit ha-Mo'atsot), and World Jewish Congress. Recorded in New York, NY. Show less
Interview with Bailey Barron and Judy Patkin. Barron was an activist with Action for Soviet Jewry (ASJ). Patkin directed ASJ and now Action for Post-Soviet Jewry, and has been an activist for over ... Show moreInterview with Bailey Barron and Judy Patkin. Barron was an activist with Action for Soviet Jewry (ASJ). Patkin directed ASJ and now Action for Post-Soviet Jewry, and has been an activist for over 36 years. Recorded in Waltham, MA. Show less
Interview with Gordon, a founder of Action for Soviet Jewry (Boston) and past president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. He is active today in Action for Post-Soviet Jewry (Boston). Record... Show moreInterview with Gordon, a founder of Action for Soviet Jewry (Boston) and past president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. He is active today in Action for Post-Soviet Jewry (Boston). Recorded in Boston, MA. Show less
Interview with Wurtman, activist for Soviet Jewry in Philadelphia and in Israel, and founder of Emergency Aid to Refuseniks. Recorded in Jerusalem, Israel.
Gathering with Rami Aronzon, Jean & Andrew Balcombe, Carol & Andrew Bender, Zalman Deutsch, Nomi Roth Elbert, Sue & Sid Gordon, Miriam Laufer, Peretz Rodman, Dr. Yaacov Ro'i, Lessa Roskin, and Rae ... Show moreGathering with Rami Aronzon, Jean & Andrew Balcombe, Carol & Andrew Bender, Zalman Deutsch, Nomi Roth Elbert, Sue & Sid Gordon, Miriam Laufer, Peretz Rodman, Dr. Yaacov Ro'i, Lessa Roskin, and Rae Ann Sharfman -- all travellers to meet refuseniks in the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s. Moderated by Joshua Reuben Tapper. Recorded at the home of Enid Wurtman in Jerusalem, Israel. Aronzon was sent by Lishkat Hakesher (Israel's Liaison Bureau, also known as Nativ) to Moscow and Leningrad over Passover 1970. A group of refuseniks was then discussing a plot to fill a Soviet airliner with Jews who wanted to emigrate, and hijack it to the West; they disagreed about whether to attempt it, and Aronzon conveyed their question back to the Lishka. Golda Meir responded not to do it. A smaller group famously attempted a scaled-down version of the plan at a Leningrad airport on June 15, 1970. Aronzon notes that the Lishka did not know the wide extent of the underground Jewish network in the USSR. The Balcombes visited refuseniks in Moscow twice, in 1978 and 1979. Jean was an activist with National Council for Soviet Jewry and with Conscience (the Inter-denominational Committee for Soviet Jewry). Andrew was a member of the World Presidium for Soviet Jewry, chairperson of National Council for Soviet Jewry, and activist with Conscience. The Benders were involved in the Soviet Jewry movement in Philadelphia, along with Lorna Adelman, Bernie & Lana Dishler, and Connie & Joe Smukler. Deutsch, along with the late Dr. David Appelbaum, was sent by the late Aryeh Kroll to visit refuseniks in Moscow, Leningrad and Odessa in 1983. He was active in resettling former refuseniks Yuli Edelstein and Yuli Kosharovsky in the Alon Shvut community. Roth Elbert was an activist in Los Angeles with the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (known as the 35's) and in Israel. She is the wife of former Kiev refusenik Misha Elbert, and sister-in-law of prisoner of conscience Lev Elbert. The Gordons were co-chairs of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry at the University of Pennsylvania, 1977-1979. Laufer was president of the Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry at Brandeis University, 1978-79. She visited refuseniks in the USSR in April 1980. Rodman was sent together with Zvi Leverich (later Levran) to the USSR in spring 1979, while a graduate student at Brandeis University. Ro’i is a professor emeritus of Russian history at Tel Aviv University. He traveled to the USSR in summer 1979, officially to participate in an international congress of political scientists at Moscow State University, but in reality to meet refuseniks in Moscow, Kiev, and Leningrad. Sharfman co-founded Detroit Action Committee for Soviet Jewry. Show less
