(Top photo: Marching for Soviet Jewry on Fifth Avenue, New York, USA, 1970s, Photo: Leni Sonnenfeld. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, Sonnenfeld collection)
The Mike and Sofia Segal Center for Jewish Culture invites you to a fascinating conversation with Professor Shaul Kelner, author of the newly released book, A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews which recently won the National Jewish Book Award.
- 10:00 am Special guided museum experience focusing on the struggle for Soviet Jewry
- 11:30 am A conversation between Professor Kelner and Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
ANU is pleased to welcome Sociologist Shaul Kelner from Vanderbilt University, as part of the launch of his seminal work, A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews , for a conversation about the grassroots strategies that united a global Jewish community in the fight for freedom and what lessons we can learn today.
The talk will also feature a guided educational tour of the museum focusing on related exhibits.
About Shaul Kelner’s Book:
A Cold War Exodus reveals the creativity and determination of activists who transformed Bar and Bat Mitzvah twinning, Freedom Seders, tourist aid missions, and more into a groundbreaking human rights campaign. Learn how this movement reshaped Jewish identity and contributed to one of the most significant mass emigrations in history.
