Books
Beckerman, Gal: When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry (Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt: January 2010)
Beizer, Michael: The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions Through a Noble Past (Jewish Pubn Society: January 1989)
Beizer, Michael and Komaromi, Ann: A Time to Sow (University of Toronto, 2025)
Cohen, Pamela Braun: Hidden Heroes: One Woman’s Story of Resistance and Rescue in the Soviet Union (Gefen Publishing House: July 2021)
Cooper, John: The British Campaign for Soviet Jewry, 1966-1991 (i2i Publishing, 2023)
Eisen, Wendy: Count Us In: The Struggle to Free Soviet Jews, A Canadian Perspective (Burgher Books, Toronto, 1995)
Friedman, Murray and Chernin, Albert D.: A Second Exodus, The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews (Brandeis University Press: 1999)
Gerlis, Daphne: Those Wonderful Women in Black: The Story of the Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry (Minerva Press, November 1996)
Gitelman, Zvi: A Century of Ambivalence (Indiana University Press, April 2021)
Grossman, Daniel P.: Seeing Red: Spies, Lies and My So-Called Life as a Diplomat (Seedworks, 2026)
Kelner, Shaul: A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews (NYU Press, 2024).
Olswanger, Ann; Grossman, Rafael; and Nayberg, Yevgenia: A Visit to Moscow (West Margin Press, 2022).
Orbach, William: The American Movement to Aid Soviet Jews (The University of Massachusetts Press, 1979)
Peretz, Pauline: Let My People Go: The Transnational Politics of Soviet Jewish Emigration During the Cold War (Transaction Publishes, 2015)
Schroeter, Leonard: The Last Exodus (Universe Books: 1974)
Sharansky, Natan: Fear No Evil (Random House, 1988)
Sharansky, Natan with Troy, Gil: Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People (Public Affairs, 2023)
Spiegel, Philip: Triumph, over Tyranny; The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 million Soviet Jews (Philip Spiegel: October, 2008)
Tabarovsky, Izabella: Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student’s Survival Guide (Post Hill Press, 2025)
Weiss, Avi: Open Up the Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist (The Toby Press, 2015)
Zunshine, Tatiana: A Woman Under Surveillance (Pumpkin House Publishing, 2024)
Chapters and Articles
Aronson, Robert & Grossman, Daniel: “The Enduring Legacy of the Soviet Jewry Movement” in The Times of Israel: January 4, 2023.
Beckerman, Gal: “The Soviet Jewry Movement in America: The Fight to Liberate the USSR’s Jews Strengthened and United the American Jewish Community,” on My Jewish Learning Website, Modern Jewish History.
Rosenblatt, Gary: “American Jews Forgot To Tell Their Children” in New York Jewish Week: June 12, 2019.
Greenger, Nurit: “There was Hope, Fate, Future – 35’s-Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry Reunion” in The Jerusalem Post: February 6, 2018)
Guthmann, Edward: “How Local Heroes Helped Soviet Jews” in San Francisco Chronicle: April 9, 2008.
Kelner, Shaul: “People-to-People: Cleveland’s Jewish Community and the Exodus of Soviet Jews” in Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community, Sean Martin & John J. Grabowski, editors (Rutgers University Press, 2020) pp 203-222.
Kelner, Shaul: “Foreign Tourists, Domestic Encounters: Human Rights Travel to Soviet Jewish Homes,” In Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Christian Noack, eds. Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain, (Routledge, London: 2020).
Kelner, Shaul: “The American Soviet Jewry’s Movement Uneventful 1968: Cold War Liberalism, Human Interest, and the Politics of the Long Haul” in American Jewish History, Volume 102, Number 1, January 2018 (Johns Hopkins University Press) pp. 5-35.
Kelner, Shaul: “Ritualized Protest and Redemptive Politics: Cultural Consequences of the American Mobilization to Free Soviet Jewry” in Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3, New Series (Indiana University Press: Spring/Summer 2008) pp. 1-37.
Light, Harold B. – Special Report: “Let My People Go” in Christian Life Report: May 1974.
Orbach, William: ”The British Soviet Jewry Movement” in Forum: On the Jewish People, Zionism, and Israel: January 1, 1978.
Peretz, Pauline: “Grassroots Political Mobilization in the United States in the 1960s: The Example of Assistance to Soviet Jewish Immigrants” in Matériaux pour l’histoire de Notre Temps. Volume 87, Issue 3, 2007, pages 70 to 76. Link to abstract in English.
Ravitz, Jessica: “Defying the KGB: How a Forgotten Movement Freed a People”, CNN: December 30, 2012.
Rosenblum, Louis: “Involvement with the Soviet Jewry Movement,” in Remembering Cleveland’s Jewish Voices, Sally Wertheim & Alan B. Bennett, editors, (Jewish Federation of Cleveland, 2011), pp. 263-280.