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The "remarkable" story of the grass-roots movement that freed millions of Jews from the Soviet Union (The Plain Dealer) . At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the USSR. They lived a paradox - unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue. Journalist Gal Beckerman draws on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews with refuseniks, activists, Zionist "hooligans," and Congressional staffers. He shows not only how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989, but also how it shaped the American Jewish community, giving it a renewed sense of spiritual purpose and teaching it to flex its political muscle.



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Gal Beckerman

Gal Beckerman is a writer and editor at The New York Times Book Review and the author of "When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone," which won the National Jewish Book Award and Sami Rohr Prize, and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post. He has a PhD in media studies from Columbia University and writes for many publications, including The New Republic and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.



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