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  3. The Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1948–1967
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      31 October 2009
      14 March 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511599583
      9780521390842
      9780521522441
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599583
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.732kg, 482 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 484 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
      Series:
      Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (75)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
    Series:
    Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (75)
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    In this important 1991 study of Soviet Jewry, Yaacov Ro'i examines the cultural, social, political and international context of the movement for emigration, from the establishment of the state of Israel to the outbreak of the Six Day War. A discussion of the lives of Soviet Jews, based upon oral testimony, shows how Jewish self-awareness arose as a product of the Holocaust, of the founding of the State of Israel, and of popular antisemitism and Soviet policy, and how local groups developed in clandestine conditions to sustain Jewish cultural interests. The author also analyses the campaign conducted in the West on behalf of Soviet Jewish rights as a whole and emigration in particular. By 1967 Soviet Jewish efforts to maintain even a minimal Jewish existence seemed doomed to constant frustration, and most nationalistically minded Jews accepted that the only way of fulfilling their aspirations was to emigrate to Israel.

    Reviews

    "This study unquestionably fills some gaps in our knowledge concerning the growth of Zionism within the Soviet Union and the role of Israel in support of this process." David L. Williams, History

    "Yaacov Ro'i's monograph signals an important beginning, sythesizing a wide variety of English, Russian and Hebrew sources to tell his complex story." Alexandra S. Korros, Russian Review

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