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"Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: "Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
"Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989. By Henry L. Feingold. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. ix + 400 pp.

This book is about both an important era in American Jewish history and a chapter in cold war history. From 1967 to 1989, the efforts of Jewish organizations and their congressional friends to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate became a crusade with clear diplomatic repercussions in Soviet-American relations.

Feingold begins with some historical background to illustrate that, even before the twentieth century, American Jews, deeply concerned with the fate of Russian Jews, established a tradition of seeking government intervention. He then points...

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