Bibliography

American Jewish Yearbook (1968-2006)

HIAS Annual Report (1967-2006)

Buwalda, Petrus. They Did Not Dwell Alone: Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union, 1967-1990 (Washington, DC, Baltimore, London: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

Drachman, Edward. Challenging the Kremlin: The Soviet Jewish Movement for Freedom, 1967-1990 (New York: Paragon House, 1991)

Feingold, Henry. "Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007)

Lazin, Fred A. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)

Orleck, Annelise. The Soviet Jewish Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999)

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The Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS news archive
http://www.fjc.ru/news/archives.asp?origMedia=80052&scope=0&media=80056

Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home/index.html

NCSJ news
http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/MoreNews.shtml


Immigration statistics drawn from:

American Jewish Yearbook (1968-2006)

Arrivals by Immigration Area of Refugees Resettled by HIAS 1991-2004
http://hias.org/news/Statistics/HIASresettled.html

HIAS Annual Report (1967-2006)

Jewish Emigration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel & the United States
http://www.ncsj.org/stats.shtml#PAST

Lazin, Fred A. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)

 

USEFUL LINKS AND FURTHER INFORMATION

 

Philip Spiegel's new book, Triumph over Tyranny, covers the Let My People Go campaign for Soviet Jewry. A forward by Natan Sharansky

 

REFUSENIK is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights campaign that engaged the disempowered and world leaders alike. Told through the eyes of activists on both sides of the Iron Curtain - many of whom survived punishment in Soviet Gulag labor camps - the film is a tapestry of first-person accounts of heroism, sacrifice, and ultimately, liberation.

 

 

 

 

Inessa Manevich is a graduate student doing a study with Columbia University on the communication patterns of Soviet Immigrants to the U.S., who immigrated between the years of 1972-1992, and were at between 18-50 years old upon their departure from the former Soviet Union.

The survey, which will take approximately 15-20 minutes, could help others understand more about the various intricacies of this unique immigration experience.

It is an anonymous and confidential study. No participant will be asked to provide any identifying information throughout this survey. However, if they choose, participants will be given the opportunity to speak at length about their particular immigration experience, in either Russian or English.

If the above criteria apply to you and you would like to participate in this study, please be so kind as to click on the link below and take this survey.