Hello,
The following event may be of interest to you:
HRP/STS: Fred Lazin "ISRAEL VERSUS THE AMERICAN JEWISH ESTABLISHMENT"
Monday, October 24, 2005
The talk conncerns the political struggle on behalf of Soviet Jewry in
the
United States. Initially, both Israel and mainstream American Jewish
organizations. worked to facilitate Soviet Jews going to Israel.
However, when Soviet Jews began to prefer to the United States as their destination, a conflict arose between Israel and American Jewry over the issue of freedom of choice for Soviet Jews. Yet when Soviet leader Gorbachev allowed free emigration of Soviet Jews in 1989, the American Jewish community supported a quota limiting their entry into the United States. Thus many Soviet Jews were forced to go to Israel if they chose to leave the Soviet Union. About a million former soviet Jews have settled in Israel. The talk details and explains the shifts in the positions of these political forces.
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Olin Language Center, Room 115
Sponsor: Human Rights Project; Science, Technology, and Society Program.
Contact: Bridget Hanna.
E-mail: bhanna@bard.edu
Phone: 845-758-6822 x7110
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