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āBeckerman recounts the historic trajectory of this grand assertion of human rights with passionate clarity and pellucid conviction.āāCynthia Ozick
AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II, NEARLY THREE MILLION JEWS WERE TRAPPED INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION. They lived a paradoxāunwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, Weāll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue. Drawing on newly released Soviet government documents and hundreds of interviews, Beckerman shows how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989 and forced human rights into the center of American foreign policy. In cinematic detail, this multigenerational saga, filled with suspense and revelations, provides an essential missing piece of Cold War and Jewish history.
āFresh, surprising and exceedingly well-researched.āāAnne Applebaum, Washington Post Best Nonfiction 2010
āA riveting work of reporting and a magisterial history of one of the twentieth centuryās great dramas of liberation.āāCommentary
This book title, When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone (The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry), ISBN: 9780547577470, by Gal Beckerman, published by HarperCollins (September 13, 2011) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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