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The Soviets had long been using tactics of harassment, arrest, and incarceration on Soviet Jews. By the early 1970’s Soviet officials were using intimidation tactics on Western tourists who visited refuseniks. In July 1974 an incident of such harassment involving U.S. college students Miriam Rosenblum and Sheldon Benjamin brought widespread attention and condemnation in the […]

How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews by Shaul Kelner A new book, documenting the grassroots Soviet Jewry movement in the U.S., is due for publication April 2024. Shaul Kelner’s A Cold War Exodus delves into the gripping narrative of how men and women, through ingenuity and determination, devised mass mobilization tactics during a three-decade-long campaign