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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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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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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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Refusenik is a 2007 do****entary 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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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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Mendelevitch (or Mendelovitch) (Hebrew: 'יוסף מנדלביץ; born 1947 in Riga) is a
refusenik from the
former Soviet Union, also
known as a "Prisoner of Zion" and now...
- 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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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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served as
Minister of
Health from 2020 to 2021. One of the most
prominent refuseniks in the
Soviet Union, he was the 16th
Speaker of the
Knesset from 2013...
