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    Refusenik (Russian: отказник, romanized: otkaznik, from отказ (otkaz) 'refusal'; alternatively spelled refusnik) was an unofficial term for individuals—typically...
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  • 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...
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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...
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  • " These conscientious objectors refer to themselves as refuseniks, a reference to the refusenik Jews of Soviet Russia. In 2004, Courage to Refuse and one...
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  • known as sarvanim (in Hebrew סרבנים) which is sometimes translated as "refuseniks", or mishtamtim (evaders, dodgers). Some distinguish between refusal to...
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    Literary Review (400). Retrieved 22 July 2017. Wente, Margaret. "The Muslim refusenik". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 22 July 2017. Stephen Hume. "Canada 150:...
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  • 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...
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    Yosef Mendelevitch (category Refuseniks)
    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...
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    Natan Sharansky (category Refuseniks)
    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...
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    Different Sides of Israel The refusenik plot to fly to freedom ‘Operation Wedding’ and the plight of Soviet Jews Soviet refusenik and her filmmaker daughter...
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    Nuremberg Laws Pale of Settlement Pogroms Russian Empire Russian Civil War Refuseniks Segregation Spanish Inquisition Yellow badge Antisemitism on the Internet...
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    Ida Nudel (category Refuseniks)
    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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    Nuremberg Laws Pale of Settlement Pogroms Russian Empire Russian Civil War Refuseniks Segregation Spanish Inquisition Yellow badge Antisemitism on the Internet...
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  • 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...
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    קוזנצוב; 29 January 1939 – 22 December 2024) was a Soviet-Israeli dissident, refusenik, journalist, and writer. One of the leaders of the 1970 Dymshits–Kuznetsov...
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    movements National camp One-state solution Politics of Israel Liberalism in Israel Refusenik Torat Eretz Yisrael Conservatism portal Israel portal v t e...
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    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...
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    Estonian commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army. Yosef Mendelevitch, Jewish Refusenik dissident. Aleksei Navalny, Russian opposition politician Garegin Nzhdeh...
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    movements National camp One-state solution Politics of Israel Liberalism in Israel Refusenik Torat Eretz Yisrael Conservatism portal Israel portal v t e...
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    movements National camp One-state solution Politics of Israel Liberalism in Israel Refusenik Torat Eretz Yisrael Conservatism portal Israel portal v t e...
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    Soviet authorities break up a demonstration of Jewish refuseniks in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the right to immigrate to Israel, January...
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    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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  • death, persecution of Jews would continue until the late 1980s (see: refuseniks). Under the Tsars, Jews – who numbered approximately 5 million in the...
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    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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    Nuremberg Laws Pale of Settlement Pogroms Russian Empire Russian Civil War Refuseniks Segregation Spanish Inquisition Yellow badge Antisemitism on the Internet...
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    movements National camp One-state solution Politics of Israel Liberalism in Israel Refusenik Torat Eretz Yisrael Conservatism portal Israel portal v t e...
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