A Cold War exodus : how American activists mobilized to free Soviet Jews

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Full Title:: A Cold War exodus : how American activists mobilized to free Soviet Jews / Shaul Kelner

Related/Included Titles:: 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.

Subjects:: Jews--Soviet Union--Migrations
Jews--Soviet Union--Social conditions
Antisemitism--Soviet Union
Refuseniks
Social movements--United States
Protest movements--United States
Cold War--Diplomatic history
Social movements
Soviet Union--Ethnic relations
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States

Table of 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.
Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:: "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"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xviii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm