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JEWS IN AMERICA
Jews in America:
Soviet Jewry Movement
HIS 110 – American Jewish History
Professor Harry Berkson
JEWS IN AMERICA
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Jews in America:
Soviet Jewry Movement
The Soviet Jewry Movement was viewed as an international human rights campaign
advocating for Jewish rights in the Soviet Union to emigrate.
The active participants of this
movement were mainly in the United States and in the Soviet Union, and people denied
permission to emigrate were recognized as Refusenik.
The movement was responsible for
strengthening the identity of the Jewish and spanned the right-left partition that caused the divide
among most Jews when it came Israel discussions (jewishvirtualllibrary.org, n. d.). Whether out
of human freedoms concerns or because of additional Jewishly focused ones, Soviet Jewry was
viewed as being responsible for uniting Jews in the United States.
The Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry was the grassroots effort of the United States established in 1964 at Columbia
University.
With the use of protesting, data dispersal, and campaigning, the group compelled the
Kremlin to allow the release of the Refuseniks, and Jews focusing on escaping the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR).
The protest turned into a movement, and the movement
expanded to an worldwide objection that twenty-five years later was responsible for ripping the
Iron Curtain open, promoting the largest Jewish mass migration ever, yet contributed to the
collapsing of the Soviet Union, solidified human rights issues occurring in the United States,
foreign policy and responsible for the emerging of a solid, independent American Jewry that
could defend itself and stand up for breather experiencing mistreatment worldwide.
I was unaware of the Soviet Jewry Movement until I read this article.
It was interesting
to learn how Jews denied permission to emigrate were labeled as Refuseniks.
I believe that Jews
entering the United States should be treated with respect and dignity and allowed to enter the
United States unless they are viewed as a criminal, murderer, or could cause harm to the
American citizens or to the country.
I believe that people should be treated equally, which is
viewed as a fundamental aspect of human rights and social justice, which is interpreted that
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