The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry: Pivotal Figures from a Heroic Era
Natan Sharansky, Elie Wiesel, Gal Beckerman and Richard Perle with Thane Rosenbaum
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Join Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Natan Sharansky, political advisor Richard Perle and Gal Beckerman, author of When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry, to discuss the dramatic cold war period when American Jewry first became politicized as Jews, and Jews behind Russia’s Iron Curtain took grave risks in order to win their freedom and emigrate to Israel or the United States.
Accompanying this panel discussion is an original exhibition in the Milton J. Weill Gallery that presents and contextualizes a selection of remarkable stories, images and reflections from Soviet Jewish soldiers during the war. The exhibition runs from Oct 25 – Dec 4, 2011. For more information please visit www.blavatnikarchive.org.
Brief Biography
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist and law professor at Fordham University and the director of the Forum on Law, Culture and Society.
This lecture is underwritten by The Blavatnik Family Foundation.
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