Venue: YU Israel YU Israel

History:

20th Century CE 

Collections: R' Rakeffet Jewish History Fall 2021

Description

Introduction and a brief history of Rav Rakeffet's shiurim at Gruss. Golda Meir in Moscow 1948. Jacob Birnbaum creates Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Nathan Birnbaum and Herzl. The struggle for Soviet Jewry begins for R. Shlomo when he goes to Prague in 1965. The role and impact of the song Am Yisrael Chai. Rav Shlomo goes to Moscow in 1970. Simchat Torah in Moscow. Avital Sharansky. The impact R. Shlomo and Rav Rakeffet had in the USSR because of the tape recorder. Iosif (Yosef) Begun. R. Shlomo goes to Moscow in 1989 with a very big difference.