Description: Cheerful Memories/Troubled Years : A Story of a Refusenik's Family in Leningrad and Its Struggle for Immigration to Israel, Paperback by Taratuta, Aba; Taratuta, Ida, ISBN 1644690446, ISBN-13 9781644690444, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "This book captures the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the hardships of the USSR and repatriate to Israel in the late twentieth century. The narrative follows the lives of three family members, Aba, his wife Ida, and their son Misha, as they endure countless struggles throughout their journey to freedom. Tense moments ensue as the refuseniks print copies of forbidden Zionist literature and textbooks, publicly support those detained in prison and the Gulag, organize scientific andlegal seminars in their apartment, receive Western visitors, and secretly partake in weekly Hebrew lessons. Well-recognized in the West as central players in the Soviet Jewish movement in Leningrad throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Taratutas underwent constant surveillance by the KGB until they were finally able to repatriate to Israel. In spite of their hardships, the family attempted to live a life of normalcy and to cherish moments of happiness and togetherness"--
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Book Title: Cheerful Memories/Troubled Years : A Story of a Refusenik's Family in Leningrad and Its Struggle for Immigration to Israel
Number of Pages: 164 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Topic: World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Emigration & Immigration, Personal Memoirs, Social Activists, Jewish
Publication Year: 2019
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Ida Taratuta, Aba Taratuta
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
