Tag Archives: Yuli Kosharovsky

Commemorate the heroic contribution of Soviet Jewish activists

CANDIDLY SPEAKING FROM JERUSALEM by Isi Leibler May 4, 2015 Last week, I was deeply saddened to learn that Volodya Slepak passed away. A week earlier another giant among the heroes of Soviet Jewry, Volodya Prestin, also died, preceded a … Continue reading

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The Road to Sovereignty Was Paved with Clarity; heroic refusenik Yuli Kosharovsky has died

DANIEL GORDIS May 2, 2014 Yuli Kosharovsky died on the first day of Passover, the “season of our freedom.”The man who had been the refusenik trapped behind the Iron Curtain for longer than anyone else, one of the most inspirational pillars of … Continue reading

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