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July 5, 2023

Lessons for Freeing an American Jew in Russia from the Fight to Free Soviet Jewry

Rallying behind Evan Gershkovich.

Since March, the U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich has been imprisoned in Russia on trumped-up charges of espionage. He is currently being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison, whose previous inmates include Natan Sharansky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Raoul Wallenberg. Kennedy Lee calls on Americans to make a greater effort to procure Gershkovich’s release, and turns to the mass mobilization of Jewish public opinion in the U.S. in support of Soviet refuseniks for guidance:

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