Next Year in Jerusalem

Plot

This book was written by Avital Scheransky with the help of Ilana Ben-Joseph at the height of the struggle for the liberation of Soviet Jewry's leading dissenter Anatoly Scheransky. Scheransky was then confined in a Soviet prison while his wife and the future mother of his children was already in Israel. She tells in the book of their first meetings, her own struggle to find her Jewish identity, the struggle of the movement for free emigation within the Soviet Union. It is a moving and heroic story , which surprisingly had a happy ending with their re- uniting in Israel and going on to make a new life and build a family there.