| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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"Silent No More": Saving the Jews of Russia, The American Jewish Effort, 1967–1989. By Henry L. Feingold. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xviii, 400 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8156-3101-9.)

From the early 1950s to 1989, Israel's government, American politicians, and Jewish organizations pressured the Soviet Union (USSR) to open its doors for Jewish emigrants. Henry L. Feingold finds continuity and divergence between their efforts and those of American Jews to assist Russian Jews in the first decades of the twentieth century. In both cases American Jewish organizations fought over techniques, power, and objectives. Earlier, Louis Marshall and Jacob Schiff had acted as spokespeople, but when Morris Abram and Edgar Bronfman tried similar independent action later their efforts were castigated. American Jewry had become more democratic. Coupled with Israel's wars for survival, the Soviet Jewry movement had an impact on American Jewish identity and political coming of age.

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