In July 1971, a group of Jews from Georgia sat itself down in front of the Moscow central post office and declared a hunger strike. “We believe that our prayers have reached the heavens" they said to the world," We are indeed asking very little – let us go to the land of our forefathers.”
That was the signal for the modern era’s Exodus, in which millions of former Soviet Jews would embark on a journey to the unknown.
It is their story we sought to document forty years later, in the summer of 2011. With a loving and careful hand, we touched and endeavored to tell the story of these people and their country and the story of the Jewish People’s grace moments and concern for its most remote communities.
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This journey was made possible thanks to the generosity and the creativity of the photographers who participated in this mission,
together with the support of the JDC in Israel, the US and in Georgia, and the Jewish Funders Network branch in Israel.
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