Refusenik (Russian: отказник, romanized: otkaznik, from отказ (otkaz) 'refusal'; alternatively spelled refusnik) was an unofficial term for individuals—typically...

Look up refusenik in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A refusenik is someone who was denied permission to emigrate by the Soviet Union. It can also mean...

known as sarvanim (in Hebrew סרבנים) which is sometimes translated as "refuseniks", or mishtamtim (evaders, dodgers). Some distinguish between refusal to...

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...

" These conscientious objectors refer to themselves as refuseniks, a reference to the refusenik Jews of Soviet Russia. In 2004, Courage to Refuse and one...

Literary Review (400). Retrieved 22 July 2017. Wente, Margaret. "The Muslim refusenik". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 July 2017. Stephen Hume. "Canada 150:...

organization. A former Soviet dissident, he spent nine years imprisoned as a refusenik during the 1970s and 1980s. Sharansky was born into a Jewish family on...

served as Minister of Health from 2020 to 2021. One of the most prominent refuseniks in the Soviet Union, he was the 16th Speaker of the Knesset from 2013...

play Oslo. He is also known for playing the role of Anton Baklanov, a refusenik scientist in The Americans. Aronov was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR (today...

Soviet Jews to Israel after the Soviet Union lifted its ban on Jewish refusenik emigration in 1971. More than 150,000 Soviet Jews immigrated during this...

April 15, 2013) was an Israeli physicist, professor-emeritus, and former refusenik. Fain was born to a Jewish family in Kyiv. His father was a mathematician...

claiming that he was too valuable a scientist to be allowed to leave. As a refusenik, he lost access to mathematical libraries and other academic resources...

and Anna Nevzlin (née Shlepper). She is married to Yuli Edelstein, a Refusenik and member of the Israeli Knesset. Irina Nevzlin was born in Moscow, Soviet...

death, persecution of Jews would continue until the late 1980s (see: refuseniks). Under the Tsars, Jews – who numbered approximately 5 million in the...

other content. His initial political work starting in 1969 concerned Refuseniks, the Soviet Jews who were unable to emigrate. He gradually began offering...

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Union collapsed, many of the Jews in the affected territory (who had been refuseniks) were suddenly allowed to leave. This produced a wave of migration to...

entering Switzerland for five years. Mossad was involved in outreach to refuseniks in the Soviet Union during the crackdown on Soviet Jews in the period...

Russian Empire – 6 April 2004, Rehovot, Israel) was a scientist and Soviet refusenik. He was born to a Jewish family in Vinnytsia, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)...

Russian: Иосиф Зиселевич Бегун, Hebrew: יוסף ביגון) is a former Soviet refusenik, prisoner of conscience, human rights activist, author and translator...

emigrate. Because the Soviet Union refused the right of emigration to Jewish refuseniks, the ability of the President to apply most-favored nation trade status...

Rabbi Eliyahu Essas (Hebrew: אליהו אסאס, Russian: Илья Цвиевич Эссас, Ilya Tsvievich Essas; born 1946) is a former leader of Soviet Jewry and one of the...

was formed to represent the interests of Russian immigrants by former refuseniks Natan Sharansky and Yuli-Yoel Edelstein. Initially a centrist party, it...

Нудель; 27 April 1931 – 14 September 2021) was a Soviet-born Israeli refusenik and activist. She was known as the "Guardian Angel" for her efforts to...

Priapus - an entry in the Refusenik Dossier. Kid Torture - an entry in the Refusenik Dossier. Golliwog - an entry in the Refusenik Dossier. Extinguishness...

Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-87371-5. Kidron, Peretz (2013). Refusenik!: Israel's Soldiers of Conscience. Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-84813-766-0....

directing and producing the documentary films Rock in the Red Zone (2015) and Refusenik (2008). Laura R. Bialis was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up...

countries and in the former Soviet Union (and were also known for being refuseniks). In addition to the Soviet Union, Jews from other Communist countries...

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