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A Refusenik's Odyssey

By Lina Haber, Schwarcz Glenn
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By Lina Haber, Schwarcz Glenn
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A harsh journey of a Soviet girl reframes faith, identity, and survival amid state coercion.

This is the historical biography of a fiercely communist, atheist young Soviet girl who had to revise her whole way of thinking when she was denied admission to medical school in 1973 because she was Jewish. Soviet Russia had decided to eliminate all future Jewish doctors by finding excuses to refuse them medical school admission. It traces her life against the history of Soviet Russia and the comple...