Soviet Jewry

A new symbol at some Passover seders: an empty seat for Evan Gershkovich, Jewish journalist jailed in Russia

Gershkovich, a New York native and the son of Soviet Jewish refugees to the United States, is a Moscow correspondent with the Wall Street Journal.

Soviet Jewry protest leaders in San Francisco secretly recruited help from Jews for Jesus, FBI file says

If the FBI’s intelligence is accurate, a movement that unified much of the global Jewish community relied at least to some extent on the support of a reviled group whose mission is to proselytize to Jews.

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91

Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews.