Gal Beckerman, author of “When They Come for Us, We’ll be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry” has agreed to an interview. Mr. Beckerman is a reporter at The Forward, and his first book has garnered praise from around the country. In an essay about the book, Gal describes his reason for going to Moscow, which is strikingly similar to how I began my journey into this documentary:
I needed to see the places I was writing about in the book, even though no activists or refuseniks lived there any more. All my characters were long gone–the story itself was about their fight to leave. So besides talking with a few former dissidents and some Russian Jews who had stayed, it was mostly just a chance to get a better feel for the lost world in which my book takes place.
Learn more about Gal here.
Buy the book here.