The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry

By Elie Wiesel

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

Elie Wiesel's report on his 1965 trip to the Soviet Union, where he traveled during the Jewish High Holy Days to meet Soviet Jews. Wiesel writes about the crowds outside synagogues in Moscow and other cities, the fear of the KGB, and a community cut off from Jewish life but still holding on to it. The book, first published in 1966, drew wide attention to the situation of Soviet Jews.

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