Product Description
Book Launch
10 May 2015
2:30pm
FREE
Suzanne Rutland, Professor in the department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney launches her book Let My People Go: untold story of Australia and Soviet Jews.
For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against its 3 million Jews. 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.
Suzanne and co-author Sam Lipskimake this largely unknown Australian story come alive with a combination of passion, personal experience and ground-breaking research.
The book will be launched by the Robert Goot AM SC, President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and chaired by Professor Konrad Kwiet, resident historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum.
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