Hidden Heroes: One Woman's Story of Resistance and Rescue in the Soviet Union

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\n"An irreplaceable history of the movement."―Elliott Abrams, former Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant Secretary of State Spanning nearly three decades, Hidden Heroes gives an insider's view of the modern-day exodus of Soviet Jews from the Soviet Union, a period of Jewish history that has rarely been told and is in danger of being forgotten. This deeply personal narrative explores the grassroots Soviet Jewish emigration movement through the eyes of one of its indefatigable leaders, focusing on the actions of heroic refuseniks in the Soviet Union as well as courageous individuals in the West described by Natan Sharansky as the "army of students and housewives" who waged the battle to free Soviet Jews. From Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania to the distant republics of Central Asia, refuseniks come to life, discovering their identity, protesting on the streets, defending themselves in courtrooms, defying jailers in their prison cells, and struggling to survive in Siberian labor camps. This engrossing memoir tells the story of the resistance and moral courage of men and women inside the Soviet Union and of those in the West who relentlessly crusaded on their behalf.\\nReview
\n"Pamela Cohen wrote a book. It is not only hers. It is OURS. We wrote the book together, the page in the history of Am Israel.… And that is why Pam’s book is so important. It is not about the past – it is a textbook for a Jewish fighter. Learn it and join our ranks. Am Israel CHAI!\\n―Yosef Mendelevich, former Prisoner of Zion\\n"As the spokesman for the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, I knew of Pam Cohen’s and the UCSJ’s work on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Few people are as qualified to write about the Soviet Jewry movement as she is. This is one of those books that can with no exaggeration be called important. It is also riveting."\\n―Dennis Prager\\n"Details how [Pamela Cohen] inspired others, transformed herself, and most importantly “changed the world” – sometimes over the objections of men much more famous than herself. An essential historical memoir and a great read."\\n―Jonathan D. Sarna, Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University\\n"Hidden Heroes demonstrates how dedication at the grassroots level for a just cause can profoundly change history."\\n―Ambassador (ret.) Stuart E. Eizenstat, former chief domestic policy adviser to President Carter (1977-1981); former US Ambassador to the European Union\\n"It is not an accident that the Soviet Union fell on the watch of the leadership of Pam Cohen, Micah Naftalin, and a whole generation of mostly volunteers. It was, in retrospect and prophetically, inevitable. Now their story is finally told."\\n―Josef I. Abramowitz, President and CEO, Gigawatt Global Coöperatief U.A.\\n"Tells an important part of the unique story of brave and courageous individuals who effected immense change for human rights worldwide."\\n―Alan Dershowitz, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University; lawyer for refuseniks and dissidents\\n"One woman's story here illuminates a vast historic movement that changed Jewish and Israeli history."
\n --Elliott Abrams, former Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant Secretary of State\\n"Honestly, I haven’t stopped talking about it...I really don’t know how [Pam Cohen] managed to accomplish this...It is absolutely brilliant: by FAR the best of the books that have come out about the movement." --Judy Balint, Journalist, JNS.org\\n"One woman's story here illuminates a vast historic movement that changed Jewish and Israeli history." --Elliott Abrams, former Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant Secretary of State
\n About the Author
\nHaunted by the legacy of the Holocaust, Pamela Braun Cohen became an activist in the Soviet Jewry movement in the early 1970s. She served as cochair of Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry from 1978 until 1986, when she became the national president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ). Her leadership rol

Publisher:

Gefen Publishing House

Pages:

384

Date Published:

2021