This book is a three-layered story. The first layer is the work of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry (CASJ) in particular. The second layer focuses on the campaign to gain freedom for the former Soviet scientist and poet, Yuri Tarnopolsky. (Memoirs of 1984, also published by University Press of America, is Tarnopolsky's first-person account of his experience.) When he applied to emigrate in 1979 from the...
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