Let My People Go
In Australia, political leaders and the Jewish community contributed significantly to the international protest movement which eventually triumphed over Moscow's tyranny and led to the modern Exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel and other countries.

Lipski and Rutland make this largely unknown Australian story come alive with a combination of passion, personal experience and ground-breaking research.

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Let My People Go
In Australia, political leaders and the Jewish community contributed significantly to the international protest movement which eventually triumphed over Moscow's tyranny and led to the modern Exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel and other countries.

Lipski and Rutland make this largely unknown Australian story come alive with a combination of passion, personal experience and ground-breaking research.

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Let My People Go

Let My People Go

Let My People Go

Let My People Go

Overview

In Australia, political leaders and the Jewish community contributed significantly to the international protest movement which eventually triumphed over Moscow's tyranny and led to the modern Exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel and other countries.

Lipski and Rutland make this largely unknown Australian story come alive with a combination of passion, personal experience and ground-breaking research.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789652298485
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
Publication date: 08/15/2015
Pages: 274
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 12 Years

About the Author

Sam Lipski, following an extensive journalistic career in Australia and internationally, has been The Pratt Foundation's CEO since 1998. Among his varied media roles he was Foreign Editor, The Bulletin; Foundation Producer for the ABC’s This Day Tonight and Executive Producer Four Corners; Washington Correspondent for The Australian and the Jerusalem Post; Australian correspondent for the Washington Post; and a columnist for The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and the Sydney Daily Telegraph. He also served as the Foreign Affairs and Media commentator on the Channel Nine Network’s Sunday and Today programs. Sam was the Australian Jewish News editor-chief 1987–98, and in 1989 he was the Jerusalem Report’s founding publisher.


Suzanne D. Rutland MA (Hons) PhD, Dip Ed, OAM, is Professor of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney and the main lecturer in the program of Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Cultures. She founded, and continues to participate in, the Hebrew and Jewish Studies teacher education program in the Faculty of Education at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on Australian Jewish history, edits the Sydney edition of the AJHS Journal, and writes on issues relating to the Shoah and Israel. In January 2008 she received the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to Higher Jewish Education and interfaith dialogue.

Table of Contents

Foreword v

Abbreviations xi

Glossary xiii

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction xiii

1 From Russia with Thanks 1

2 The Spymaster and the Recruit 15

3 Three Leaders, Three Voices 24

4 Wentworth Asks, Barwick Answers 34

5 The Cohen Affair 47

6 Channels of Communication 60

7 From Right to Left 67

8 Italian liners and the Party 79

9 Exodus via Samizdat 90

10 Prisoners of Zion 104

11 Henry J and Henry K 115

12 "You people are hard to please" 123

13 Freedom Ride to Canberra 133

14 From Melbourne to Moscow 146

15 The Games Russians Play 155

16 Hawke's Mission Impossible 163

17 Hope against Hope 170

18 Some of my Closest Friends are KGB 179

19 It's About the Refuseniks 189

20 Gorbachev, Geneva and Glasnost 199

21 Ten Days in Moscow 207

22 The Full Circle 220

About the Authors 231

Endnotes 233

Index 265

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