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Refusenik is a 2007 documentary film by Laura Bialis that chronicles the struggle of Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. A former refusenik , Natan Sharansky , appears in the film.
Refusenik (Russian: отказник, romanized: otkaznik, from отказ (otkaz) 'refusal'; alternatively spelled refusnik) was an unofficial term for individuals—typically, but not exclusively, Soviet Jews—who were denied permission to emigrate, primarily to Israel, by the authorities of the Soviet Union and other countries of the Soviet ...
Begun is a subject of a documentary film "Refusenik", directed by Laura Bialis. [19] Begun is a subject of the film "Through Struggle You Will Gain Your Rights”. [20] [21] Begun is the subject of a long Russian-language poem, "Runner Begoon" (1987), by the author and former refusenik David Shrayer-Petrov.
Refusenik is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year international human rights campaign to free more than 1.5 million Soviet Jews who tried to escape the pervasive anti-Semitism of postwar Russia. Refuseniks is the term that Soviet Jews gave themselves when they were refused exit visas. [31]
Ralph Carter was a teenager when he joined the cast of Norman Lear's classic 1970s sitcom 'Good Times.' Here's what 'Good Times' actor Ralph Carter, who played Michael, is up to these days Skip to ...
The movie Mosca Addio (Farewell Moscow) by Mauro Bolognini, starring Liv Ullmann, was a dramatized version of her ordeal. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 1991, she established "Mother to Mother", a nonprofit organization funded by donations from abroad, seeking to take the children of Russian immigrants off the streets and into after-school activities.
Bernnadette Stanis, [4] also billed as Bern Nadette Stanis (born Bernadette Stanislaus, [5] December 22, 1953), [6] [2] is an American actress and author. Stanis is best known for her role as Thelma Evans, the only daughter of Florida and James Evans Sr. on the CBS sitcom Good Times which originally ran from 1974 to 1979.
Yosef Mendelevitch Yosef Mendelevitch with President Reagan, Vice President Bush and Avital Sharansky in the White House, May 28, 1981.. Yosef Mendelevitch (or Mendelovitch) (b. 1947 in Riga) is a refusenik from the former Soviet Union, also known as a "Prisoner of Zion" and now a politically unaffiliated rabbi [1] [2] living in Jerusalem who gained fame for his adherence to Judaism and public ...