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The Jews of Silence : A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry
The Jews of Silence A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry
Author: Elie Wiesel
Wiesel visited five Russian cities and talked to hundreds of Jews. The picture emerges of a society suffused with fear and discriminated against. — In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805208269
ISBN-10: 0805208267
Publication Date: 8/16/2011
Pages: 116
Edition: Revised
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Publisher: Schocken
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Somewhat out of date since the Soviet Union has dissolved, but still, the insights are something to think about and, as always, it is important to remember that oppressive goverments do not like the spotlight of a free press! Encouraging those who live in these totalitarian regimes is a righteous and humane act.


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