The History of Soviet Jewry Part III: Refuseniks & Immigrants

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[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team members slain in west germany out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were americans who had come to learn i say one million jewish children who were made to become losers [Music] it is never too little it is never too late and it is never enough holocaust memory or even anti-semitism all these things uh you know foster are factors in fostering jewish identity in the soviet union during that time i mentioned the passport soviet internal passports there was uh this um soviet law that that that everyone you know he had to have an internal past not just to get out of the country um just to move inside the country and it's for all kinds of regulation purposes that they had it by the way maybe the israeli 2.0 comes from that idea of you know controlling the idea of you know controlling the population by having these internal passports but in any event on the fifth line of that passport um they have the nationality line and jews the nationality had said jewish which is a fascinating concept because it didn't say ukrainian it didn't say moldovan it didn't say georgian it didn't say russian it didn't say belarusian it said jewish so you could be a jew in russia you could be in jew and so in any country any autonomous

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1. 0:02[Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the garage prolific team…
2. 5:09yeshiva that i mentioned in part two and for several decades was one of the only…
3. 9:15this growing and this is by the general youth of the soviet union it's not limited…
4. 13:54israel he was 27 years old at the time he lived in moscow and became an…
5. 18:04win medals and all of a sudden he wanted a hack about the war so you…
6. 22:42going to focus uh is focusing on soviet jewry itself by the way the jacksonvanic amendment…
7. 26:44gorbachev lifted all restrictions on immigration this is an important point because it is assumed that…
8. 30:48economic cultural political social linguistic communal structures customs norms legacies and traditions all come from eastern…
9. 35:25responds by sitting for 10 minutes in silence and then he explain exclaims how am i…
10. 39:30shu until today carmela rise and she looked at him at that point in the early…

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