A first-hand account of a refusenik’s battle to practice yiddishkeit in Soviet Russia. Yosef Mendelevich was a Jewish refusenik in the former Soviet Union who spent 12 years in the Gulag together with fellow refusenik Natan Sharansky.
Being repeatedly refused the right to immigrate to Israel, he became one of the leaders of the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair. In 1981, after a worldwide struggle, he was released and immigrated to Israel.
