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Sharansky, Natan was born on January 20, 1948 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Son of Boris and Ida (Milgrom) Sharansky.
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In 1977, Sharansky, a Jewish dissident, was arrested by the KGB on a charge of spying for the CIA. After 16 months of interrogation, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, where he remained until 1986, when he was exchanged for a Soviet spy held by the United States. This is a riveting story, told directly and without self-pity, of the Soviet Union's attempts to crush political opponents. Unlike many others, Sharansky retained a sense of self by refusing to acknowledge that physical domination implied moral superiority, an opposition symbolized by his refusal to give up his Psalm book. A compelling account of numbing privations, hunger strikes, and especially of courage, this book will have wide appeal. Scholars will also gain insight into the reformed, but essentially unchanged, post-Stalin KGB and penal bureaucracies.
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Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice? Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. Better to have hostile identities framed by democracy than democrats indifferent to identity. In a vigorous, insightful challenge to the left and right alike, Natan Sharansky, as he has proved repeatedly, is at the leading edge of the issues that frame our times.
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Natan Sharansky believes that the truest expression of democracy is the ability to stand in the middle of a town square and express one's views without fear of imprisonment. He should know. A dissident in the USSR, Sharansky was jailed for nine years for challenging Soviet policies. During that time he reinforced his moral conviction that democracy is essential to both protecting human rights and maintaining global peace and security. Sharansky was catapulted onto the Israeli political stage in 1996. In the last eight years, he has served as a minister in four different Israeli cabinets, including a stint as Deputy Prime Minister, playing a key role in government decision making from the peace negotiations at Wye to the war against Palestinian terror. In his views, he has been as consistent as he has been stubborn: Tyranny, whether in the Soviet Union or the Middle East, must always be made to bow before democracy. Drawing on a lifetime of experience of democracy and its absence, Sharansky believes that only democracy can safeguard the well-being of societies. For Sharansky, when it comes to democracy, politics is not a matter of left and right, but right and wrong. This is a passionately argued book from a man who carries supreme moral authority to make the case he does here: that the spread of democracy everywhere is not only possible, but also essential to the survival of our civilization. His argument is sure to stir controversy on all sides; this is arguably the great issue of our times.
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The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever published, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish HomelandThen, Now, Tomorrow sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on Arthur Hertzbergs classic, The Zionist Idea, Gil Troy explores the backstories, dreams, and legacies of more than 170 passionate Jewish visionariesquadruple Hertzbergs original number and now including women, mizrachim, and othersfrom the 1800s to today. Troy divides the thinkers into six Zionist schools of thoughtPolitical, Revisionist, Labor, Religious, Cultural, and Diaspora Zionismand reveals the breadth of the debate and surprising syntheses. He also presents the visionaries within three major stages of Zionist development, demonstrating the length and evolution of the conversation. Part 1 (pre-1948) introduces the pioneers who founded the Jewish state, such as Herzl, Gordon, Jabotinsky, Kook, Haam, and Szold. Part 2 (1948 to 2000) features builders who actualized and modernized the Zionist blueprints, such as Ben-Gurion, Berlin, Meir, Begin, Soloveitchik, Uris, and Kaplan. Part 3 showcases todays torchbearers, including Barak, Grossman, Shaked, Lau, Yehoshua, and Sacks. This mosaic of voices will engage equally diverse readers in reinvigorating the Zionist conversationweighing and developing the moral, social, and political character of the Jewish state of today and tomorrow.
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human rights activist Israeli government official
Sharansky, Natan was born on January 20, 1948 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Son of Boris and Ida (Milgrom) Sharansky.
Graduate in cybernetics, Moscow Physical Technology Institute.
Computer programmer Moscow Research Institute for Oil and Gas. Associate editor The Jerusalem Report, 1990-1995. Member Knesset (Israeli Parliament), since 1996.
Minister industry & trade Government Israel, 1997-1999, minister interior, 1999-2000, minister housing and construction, 2001—2003, deputy prime minister, 2001—2003, minister Jerusalem and Diaspora affairs, 2003—2005. Chairman The Israeli Forum for Countering Antisemitism. Founder, chairman, Yisrael B'Aliyavis, since 1996.
Professor Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
( Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defen...)
( The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever publishe...)
( Natan Sharansky believes that the truest expression of ...)
(For the first time EVER Fear No Evil is offered to the pu...)
(In 1977, Sharansky, a Jewish dissident, was arrested by t...)
Co-founder Moscow Helsinki Watch, 1976. President Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum, 1988-1996, co-founder, chairman One Jerusalem, board member Peace Watch.
Married Avital Stieglitz. Children: Rachel, Hana.