“Silent No More”: Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967–1989, Henry L. Feingold (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), xv + 400 pp., cloth, 45.00
Henry Feingold's new book, “Silent No More,” is a carefully researched and balanced interpretation of the 1967–1989 American Jewish effort to rescue Soviet Jews by fostering emigration from the USSR. The period is framed by the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War, which touched off an upsurge in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 358-360 |
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| Summary: | Henry Feingold's new book, “Silent No More,” is a carefully researched and balanced interpretation of the 1967–1989 American Jewish effort to rescue Soviet Jews by fostering emigration from the USSR. The period is framed by the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War, which touched off an upsurge in Zionist sentiment among Jews in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, which began the process leading to the collapse of the Soviet regime and the realization of the right of free movement for citizens of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Although he focuses on these years, Feingold places his account in historical context by noting that this was one of many episodes in the long history of Jewish efforts to escape oppression and pursue opportunity. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn032 |