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Book Review
| Le combat pour les Juifs soviétiques. Washington-Moscou-Jérusalem, 1953–1989 (The battle over the Soviet Jews: Washington-Moscow-Jerusalem, 1953–1989). By Pauline Peretz. (Paris: Armand Colin, 2006. 383 pp. Paper, €26.50, ISBN 2-200-34555-0.) In French.
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| The campaign on behalf of Soviet Jewry for the right to emigrate was a transnational social and political movement for human rights that spanned decades, and culminated with considerable success. Between 1948 and 1991 approximately 1.3 million Jews emigrated from the Soviet Union. Over two-thirds of the departures occurred in the years 1987–1991, during the phase of reform that preceded the collapse of the Soviet state. |
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