by Shapiro, J. and Shapiro, D.H.
Faces of Soviet Jewry. Temple Beth El newsletter. l990.
Below is material from our Mission to the Soviet Union sponsored by our Temple, Beth El, to meet with “Jewish Refuseniks” during 1989, a time of “glasnost” openness. The material below shares the Faces of Soviet Jews with whom we met (1); offers a pictorial essay (2); includes the suggestions we made to the Los Angeles and Orange Country Commission on Soviet Jewry (3); and ends with our personal reflections on the trip, then, and during the Days of Awe, 2017 (4).
- Refuseniks we met
- Faces of Soviet Jewry–A Pictorial Essay
- Mission to the Soviet Union on Behalf of Russian Jewry – July 18, 1989
- Our personal reflections on the trip
In 1991, two years after our visit, the USSR was disbanded into its constituent republics. We joke that maybe we had some small part in that! 🙂
We were invited to share this information with Wende Museum of the Cold War, Culver City, CA by Michael Balot-Garza Head of Education, Wende Museum of the Cold War. We are so happy you found the information we shared on our websites about our experiences with Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, just months before its collapse. We would be happy for you to share that information, and if you feel it would be helpful, to add he information from the website to your archive.