Russian Silhouette: A Memoir of Activism and Identity

His Fight for Others' Human Rights Led to a Struggle for his Own

Russian Silhouette is the memoir of Daniel M. Jaffe, a Jewish Princeton student who spends two summers in the oppressive, antisemitic USSR of the late 1970s. While there, he befriends Soviet Jews, refuseniks (Soviet Jews denied government permission to emigrate), and political dissidents who are living under constant government threat. The KGB surveils and arrests Daniel, warning him never to return. He returns anyway.

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