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Live from the 92nd St Y, "Pivotal Figures from a Heroic Era with Elie Wiesel and Natan Sharansky"
The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry: Pivotal Figures from a Heroic Era
Sunday, December 18, 7:15pm
Join Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky, political advisor Richard Perle and Gal Beckerman, author of When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry, to discuss the dramatic cold war period when Jews behind Russia’s Iron Curtain took grave risks in order to win their freedom and emigrate to Israel or the United States. This is a rebradcast of a program originally shown on 11/9.
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Individual programs are only $10 and can be paid for at the door. If you wish to add your name to our reservation list to save some time at registration, just drop an e-mail to btobin@optonline.net with the number of tickets.
Doors open at 6:45pm for registration and refreshments; the program begins at 7:30pm.