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Let My People Go: Soviet Jewry
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The early struggle for Soviet Jewry
October 2, 2020 · 48 min · Episode page →
It is a truism that struggle brings out unexpected powers from within us, and what's true in life is true in history as well. The struggle to liberate...
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The struggle to free the Jews of the Soviet Union, from its first stirrings to the end game, with a firsthand conversation with Dr. Zhenia Fleisher.
Where this sits in the story
1964–1989 · 3 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
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