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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

בייזר ; born April 8, 1950) is an Israeli historian, writer, journalist and refusenik born in Leningrad. He graduated from Physics and Mathematics School No...

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

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...

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hijacking affair, in which 12 refuseniks unsuccessfully attempted to hijack a plane and flee west, crackdowns on Jews and the refusenik movement followed. Informal...

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...

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cases, the government denied their visa requests. In many cases, those "Refuseniks" were fired from their jobs by the government shortly after being refused...

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)...

Estonian commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army. Yosef Mendelevitch, Jewish Refusenik dissident. Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition politician Garegin Nzhdeh...

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...

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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....

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...

military conscientious objectors of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the refuseniks, she has said that "Meretz should not go with the wind of refusal, but...

memoirist, translator, and medical scientist best known for his novel about refuseniks, Doctor Levitin, his poetry and fiction about Russian Jewish identity...