Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Gal Beckerman: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

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Harvard Book Store
Series
WGBH Forum Network
Program
Gal Beckerman: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
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WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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Gal Beckerman, reporter for , talks about his first book, an exploration of the lives of the Jews left behind in the Soviet Union after World War II. At the end of the war, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradox--unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave.Gal Beckerman draws on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews with refuseniks, activists, Zionist "hooligans," and Congressional staffers. He shows not only how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989, but also how it shaped the American Jewish community, giving it a renewed sense of spiritual purpose and teaching it to flex its political muscle. He also makes a case that the movement put human rights at the center of American foreign policy for the very first time, helping to end the Cold War.The book introduces us to all the major players, from the flamboyant Meir Kahane, head of the paramilitary Jewish Defense League, to Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky, who labored in a Siberian prison camp for over a decade, to Lynn Singer, the small, fiery Long Island housewife who went from organizing local rallies to strong-arming Soviet diplomats. This multi-generational saga provides an essential missing piece of Cold War and Jewish history.
Date
2010-11-01
Topics
History
Subjects
History
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:00:12
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Distributor: WGBH
Speaker2: Beckerman, Gal
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WGBH
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Chicago: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Gal Beckerman: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry,” 2010-11-01, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 7, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-251fj29c9g.
MLA: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Gal Beckerman: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry.” 2010-11-01. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 7, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-251fj29c9g>.
APA: Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Gal Beckerman: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-251fj29c9g