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Subject(s)

• Jews—Soviet Union—Migrations [Browse]
• Jews—Soviet Union—Social conditions [Browse]
• Antisemitism—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Ethnic relations [Browse]
• Refuseniks [Browse]
• Social movements—United States [Browse]
• Protest movements—United States [Browse]
• Cold War—Diplomatic history [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Foreign relations—United States [Browse]

Summary note

"From twinning bar and bat mitzvahs to smuggling blue jeans across the Iron Curtain, A Cold War exodus analyzes how Cold War-era social movement activists invented the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews-and reshaped Jewish American culture in the process"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• List of figures and tables
• List of acronyms
• Introduction: Let them live as Jews or let them leave
• 1 Illuminate the past and present
• 2 This is the matzoh of hope
• 3 How to find and meet Russian Jews
• 4 From Russia, with angst
• 5 We've said no to PepsiCo
• 6 Natasha's dream
• 7 My Soviet twin
• Conclusion: Voices of the vigil
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix: Soviet Jewish Emigration Statistics
• Notes
• List of Interviews.

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ISBN

• 1479879398 (hardcover)
• 9781479879397 (hardcover)

OCLC

1400972656

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