Bibliography | Politics and Protest

A Selective Bibliography

(Boldface titles are works by Refuseniks and/or Jewish Prisoners of Conscience aka Prisoners of Zion.)

The American Advocacy Movement for Soviet Jews

POLITICS AND PROTEST

Altshuler, Stuart. From Exodus to Freedom: A History of the Soviet Jewry Movement. Rowman & Littlefield. Lanham, MD. 2005.
Azbel, Mark. Refusenik: Trapped in the Soviet Union. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 1981.
Beckerman, Gal. When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Boston and New York. 2010.
Brafman, Morris, and David Schimel. Trade for Freedom. Shengold Publishers. New York. 1975.
Butman, Hillel. From Leningrad to Jerusalem. Benmir Books. Berkeley, CA. 1990.
Buwalda, Petrus. They Did Not Dwell Alone: Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union, 1967-1990. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington, DC, and Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 1997.
Cohen, Pamela Braun. Hidden Heroes: One Woman's Story of Resistance and Rescue in the Soviet Union. Gefen Publishing. Jerusalem. 2021.
Drachman, Edward R. Challenging the Kremlin: The Soviet Jewish Movement for Freedom, 1967-1990. Paragon House. New York, 1991.
Eisen, Wendy. Count Us In: The Struggle to Free Soviet Jews; Canadian Perspective. Burgher Books. Toronto. 1995.
Elkins, Dov. My Seventy-Two Friends: Encounters With Refuseniks in the U.S.S.R. Growth Associates. Rochester, NY. 1989.
Feingold, Henry L., "Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, the American Jewish Effort. 1967-1989. Syracuse University Press. Syracuse, NY - 2006.
Freedman, Robert O., ed. Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971-80. Duke Press Policy Studies. Duke University Press. Durham, NC. 1984.
Freedman, Robert O., Soviet Jewry in the 1980s: The Politics of Anti-semitism and Emigration and the Dynamics of Resettlement. Duke University Press. Durham, NC. 1989.
Friedman, Murray, and Albert D. Chernin. A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews. Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England. Hanover, NH. 1999.
Gerlis, Daphne. Those Wonderful Women in Black: The Story of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry. Minerva Press. London. 1990.
Gilbert, Martin. Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time. Macmillan. London. 1986.
Gilbert, Martin. The Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today. Macmillan London, Limited. London. 1984.
Gilboa, Yehoshua. The Black Years of Soviet Jewry, 1939-1953. Little, Brown. Boston, MA. 1971.
Gitelman, Zvi. A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present. Indiana University Press. Bloomington, IN.1988.
Goodman, Susan Tumarkin. Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change: 1890-1990. Jewish Museum/Prestel. Munich and New York. 1995.
Gur-Gurevitz, Baruch. Jewish Identity Under Tsarist, Soviet and Russian Rule: Between Assimilation and Emigration. Publishing House of the Open University of Israel. Raanana, Israel. .2008.
Harrison, Andrew. Passover Revisited: Philadelphia’s Efforts to Aid - Soviet Jews 1963-1998. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Madison, NJ and Associated University Presses, London 2001.
Hill, Rabbi David H. Serving the Jewish People: My Message to the Generations. Privately published. 2013.
Korey, William. The Soviet Cage. Anti-Semitism in Russia. Viking.New York - 1971.
Korey, William. The Promises We Keep: Human Rights, the Helsinki Process, and American Foreign Policy. Institute for East-West Security Studies. New York,. 1993.
Kosharovsky, Yuli. "We Are Jews Again":Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union. A one-volume condensation of a four-volume history. Syracuse University Press. Syracuse, NY. 2017.
Kostyrchenko, G. B., Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in Stalin's Russia. Prometheus Books. Amherst, NY. 1995.
Kuznetsov, Eduard. Prison Diaries. Stein and Day. New York. 1975.
Lawrence, Gunther. Three Million More? Doubleday & Company. Garden City, NY. 1970.
Lazin, Fred A. American Christians and the National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry. Lexington Books. Lanham. 2019.
Lazin, Fred A. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment. Lexington Books. Rowman & Littlefield. Lanham, MD. 2005.
Lein, Yevgeny. Lest We Forget: The Refuseniks' Struggle and World Jewish Solidarity. Jewish Publishing Centre. Jerusalem.1997.
Mendelevich, Yosef. Unbroken Spirit: A Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival. Gefen Publishing House and Gefen Books. Springfield, NJ. 2012
Orbach, William W. The American Movement to Aid Soviet Jews. University of Massachusetts Press. Amherst, MA. 1979.
Peretz, Pauline. Let My People Go: The Transnational Politics of Soviet Jewish Emigration During the Cold War. Transaction Publishers. Piscataway, NJ. 2015.
Potok, Chaim. The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York, NY. 1996.
Ro'i, Yaacov, ed. The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington, DC. and Johns-Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 2012.
Rubenstein, Joshua. Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights. Second edition. Beacon Press. Boston. 1985.
Rubenstein, Joshua, and Vladimir P. Naumov. Stalin's Secret Pogrom. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 2001.
Rubenstein, Joshua. The Last Days of Stalin. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 2016.
Schroeter, Leonard. The Last Exodus. Universe Books, NY. 1974.
Shneer, David. Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, NJ, and London. 2010.
Spiegel, Philip. Triumph over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews. Devora Publishing. New York. 2008.
Stein, Jacob. Days of Challenge: The Making of a Modern American Jewish Leader. Eshel Books. DC and Baltimore, MD. 2007.
Stern, Paula. Water’s Edge: Domestic Politics and the Making of American Foreign Policy. Greenwood Press. Westport, CT. 1979.
Taylor, Telford. Courts of Terror: Soviet Criminal Justice and Jewish Emigration. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1976.
Weiss, Avi. Open Up the Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist. Toby Press. New Milford. 2015.
Wiesel, Elie, The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry. Henry Holt. New York. 1966.
Zisserman-Brodsky, Dina. Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union: Samizdat, Deprivation, and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism. Palgrave Macmillan. New York. 2003.