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Euroasian Jewish News
Participants of the anniversary evening
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Anniversary of “Letter of 18 Families of Georgian Jews”
21.05.2012 Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) Deputy Secretary General Haim Ben Yakov has participated in an evening dedicated to the anniversary of the “letter of 18 families of Georgian Jews.”
The evening took place as a result of the efforts of the President of the World Congress of Georgian Jews, EAJC Vice President Gabriel Mirilashvili.
Almost half of the government of Israel and representatives of nearly all Zionist political parties remembered those years and thought about life today, about how modern Israel is seen by its citizens, guests, and Jews who live outside of Israel, as well as of the integration of repatriates into Israel's life and on their influence on the life of the country.
The creation of the Jewish national movement among Jews of the Soviet Union during the 60s and 70s was characterized by a departure from official political and ideological cliches, a strengthening of national self-consciousness and the gradual founding of the Zionist movement.
The letter of 18 Georgian Jewish families that had been sent to the UN and the incredibly courageous hunger strike and act of protest in the center of Moscow became landmarks in those processes. These events were real catalysts of the formation of the independent Jewish movement in the USSR, as well as in the campaign to support Soviet Jewry in the West. The aliyah of the 70s from Georgia also influenced the beginning of the “great Aliyah” from other regions of the former Soviet Union.
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