This book is a condensed version of the extensive, four-volume history of the Soviet Jewish Movement originally published in Russian during 2008-2012 by one of its key activists, the late Yuli Kosharovsky (1941-2014). The edited English edition makes this compelling insider account of Soviet Jewish activism from the early 1960s till the demise of the USSR in the late 1980s accessible to western readers.
Journal of Church and State
The history of Soviet Jews is one that is often overlooked and not much is known about the activists who fought for their right to be Jewish, and Kosharovksy, along with many other writers and historians, has given a voice to a community of people who did not receive nearly the amount of recognition that they deserve.
We Are Jews Again is a concise, yet authoritative, first-person description of the six-decade struggle of Soviet Jewry against a harsh and unforgiving government for their right to emigrate to Israel. His interviews, which he relates verbatim, concretize the hellish reality faced by all who opposed the Soviet hierarchy. It is a must reading for anyone interested in modern Jewish or Soviet history.
This remarkable book is different from others about Soviet Jewry. It relies on interviews with the activists themselves, who explain the reasons for actions taken during the period between 1967 and the fall of the USSR in 1991. It is comprehensive, rational and intelligent in conveying this episode in contemporary Jewish history-an enticing work that does not rely on emotion to convey the struggle for national liberation.
The Jerusalem Post Magazine
This book is a condensed version of the extensive, four-volume history of the Soviet Jewish Movement originally published in Russian during 2008-2012 by one of its key activists, the late Yuli Kosharovsky (1941-2014). The edited English edition makes this compelling insider account of Soviet Jewish activism from the early 1960s till the demise of the USSR in the late 1980s accessible to western readers.
Journal of Church and State - Larissa Remennick Bar-Ilan University
The history of Soviet Jews is one that is often overlooked and not much is known about the activists who fought for their right to be Jewish, and Kosharovksy, along with many other writers and historians, has given a voice to a community of people who did not receive nearly the amount of recognition that they deserve.
The Canadian Jewish News - RUTY KOROTAEV
This remarkable book is different from others about Soviet Jewry. It relies on interviews with the activists themselves, who explain the reasons for actions taken during the period between 1967 and the fall of the USSR in 1991. It is comprehensive, rational and intelligent in conveying this episode in contemporary Jewish history - an enticing work that does not rely on emotion to convey the struggle for national liberation.
The Jerusalem Post Magazine - COLIN SHINDLER
An indispensable chronicle of a movement that helped bring down the Soviet Union from within. As one of the early leaders of the refusenik movement, Kosharovsky -- through his own reminiscences and his probing interviews with hundreds of fellow activists -- documents in personal terms how Soviet Jews struggled to rediscover their own identity and ultimately achieved their own liberation....a powerful testimony to the courage of an oppressed people.
former US Ambassador to Russia (2001-2005), State Department Director for Soviet Union Affairs (1988-1991), and winner o - Alexander Vershbow
We Are Jews Again is a concise, yet authoritative, first-person description of the six-decade struggle of Soviet Jewry against a harsh and unforgiving government for their right to emigrate to Israel. His interviews, which he relates verbatim, concretize the hellish reality faced by all who opposed the Soviet hierarchy. It is a must reading for anyone interested in modern Jewish or Soviet history.
San Diego Jewish World - Fred Reiss
The Jewish activists who stood against Soviet persecution were heroes for their own people and for the wider world in the struggle for freedom of conscience. This insightful history will tell a Western audience about their fight for liberty, which many of them didn't live to enjoy themselves.
former United States ambassador to the United Nations - John Bolton
There is so much that is new, inspiring and startling in the book that it is as though I encountered the Soviet Jewry movement and its historic sweep for the first time.. Recommended
Professor Emerita of Jewish History at The Graduate Center (CUNY) - Jane S. Gerber
Yuli Kosharovsky has recorded lively and insightful personal accounts that form the backbone of an exceptionally intimate and well-rounded look at the Soviet Jewish movement from the inside.
Professor of history emeritus at Tel-Aviv University - Yaacov Ro'I
Kosharovsky provides us with a moving and well-documented account of how conviction can make the seeming impossible finally take place.
former U.S. Secretary of State - George P. Shultz