US Cold War Immigration Policy, Human Rights, and the Soviet Jewry Movement: Reflections on William Korey’s “The Right to Leave for Soviet Jews – Legal and Moral Aspects.”

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1 On the U.S. treatment of persecuted Asians fleeing communism, see Laura Madokoro, Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2016. See Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard University Press, 2012); Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea (Penguin, 2012), especially 317–341.

2 Paul Kramer, “The Geopolitics of Mobility: Immigration Policy and America Global Power in the Long Twentieth Century,” American History Review (April 2018), 394.

3 Paul Kramer, “The Geopolitics of Mobility,” 397.

4 “Biographical Documents,” n.d., William Korey, Papers, Box 1, Folder 2, American Jewish Historical Society.

5 William Korey, “Human Rights Treaties: Why Is the U.S. Stalling?,” Foreign Affairs (April 1, 1967). http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/23875/william-korey/human-rights-treaties-why-is-the-us-stalling

6 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/world/04korey.html

7 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/migrant-children-separated.html

 

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Rebecca Kobrin

Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Professor of American Jewish History, Columbia University. She is also the Co-Director of Columbia University's Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies.