The Jews of Hope. The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today

London England: Macmillan. Very Good/Very Good. 1984. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0333366255 Signed by Author Hardback Hardback. First Edition. Message to previous owner signed by the author to inside cover. In the Soviet Union today there are more than 10,000 Jews who have applied to emigrate but whose applications have been rejected - some of them again and again. They are just a small proportion of the total of nearly 400,000 Jews who, over the past decade, have requested the documents needed before they can even ask to leave, but who have not been given an exit visa. This book is the sotry of a few of those 'refuseniks' who bravely persist in their hopes and, deprived of ther jobs, separated from their families, imprisoned, or exiled in Siberia on false charges, suffer for those hopes at the hands of the Soviet authorities. This book is the author's personal account of their plight, based upon a journey in 1983 and his conversations with several remarkable individuals. it is a moving, sometimes harrowing account of men and women whose aspirations have been roused and whose Jewishness has been reborn, and who now courageously struggle for their human rights, against the odds, in expectation of the day that they believe will come. Illustrated. 237 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .