Yosef Mendelevitch

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Yosef Mendelevitch
Yosef Mendelevitch with Ronald Reagan , George HW Bush and Avital Sharansky in the White House , May 28, 1981

Yosef Mendelevitch (or Mendelovitch ) (* 1947 in Riga ) was a Soviet Jew and member of the Refusenik movement who was involved in an attempted plane hijacking in 1970 with which the group wanted to force their emigration. He was imprisoned with the Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky . After his release in 1981 he emigrated to Israel , where he now works as a Zionist rabbi . Mendelevitch wrote an acclaimed autobiography about his life as a "prisoner of Zion".

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  • Yosef Mendelevich: Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic Story Of Faith, Courage and Survival . Translation from the Hebrew Benjamin Balint . New Jersey: Gefen, 2012. ISBN 978-9652295637
    • מבצע חתונה אסיר ציון Original Hebrew source

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Natan Sharansky: The Jewish Agency's 21st Century Challenge . Our Jerusalem.com. July 9, 2009. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ourjerusalem.com
  2. ^ Prisoner of Zion (audio lecture by subject as guest lecturer) . The Genesis Center. January 29, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Natan Sharansky: The Jewish Agency's 21st Century Challenge . Our Jerusalem.com. July 9, 2009. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ourjerusalem.com
  4. ^ A second exodus: the American movement to free Soviet Jews, by Murray Friedman, Albert D. Chernin January 29, 2010.
  5. ↑ Film Review: Refusenik: Reviewed by Fern Sidman . In: Edition of Jewish Magazine . Jewish Mag.com. August 2008. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ Alexander Zaitchik: Documentary Pulls Back Iron Curtain . Forward.com. May 16, 2008. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  7. ^ Lighten Up; By Rabbi Elazar Muskin (March 8, 2001) . Jewish journal.com. January 29, 2010. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jewishjournal.com
personal data
SURNAME Mendelevitch, Yosef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli refusenik and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga