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Refusenik (Russian: отказник, romanized: otkaznik, from отказ (otkaz) 'refusal';
alternatively spelled refusnik) was an
unofficial term for individuals—typically...
- Look up
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...
- 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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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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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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claiming that he was too
valuable a
scientist to be
allowed to leave. As a
refusenik, he lost
access to
mathematical libraries and
other academic resources...
- play Oslo. He is also
known for
playing the role of
Anton Baklanov, a
refusenik scientist in The Americans.
Aronov was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He...
- death, ****cution of Jews
would continue until the late 1980s (see:
refuseniks).
Under the Tsars, Jews – who
numbered approximately 5
million in the...
