Join us for the third session in our online “Ideals of Freedom: Jewish Immigration, Arts and Advocacy” series for “Russian American Jewish Refugee Woman Scientist: My Story in Space and Time.”
In 1981, Janna Kaplan arrived in the United States as a 27-year-old Jewish political refugee, fleeing the violent antisemitism and persecution of the Soviet Union.
Having lived through and observed half a century of extraordinary history on both sides of the Iron Curtain, she will reflect on her 27 years in the Soviet Union and 45 years in America.
Janna will share her at times hopeful yet often excruciating and agonizing insights into her personal, our national, and our common Jewish past, present, and future.
About our speaker:
Janna Kaplan is senior research scientist at Brandeis University, specializing in neuropsychology and space research. Janna’s undergraduate and graduate degrees are from the University of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). A former refusenik, Janna came to the U.S. from the Soviet Union (now Russia) in 1982 as a Jewish political refugee, fleeing state-sponsored antisemitic violence and intellectual and cultural suppression.
This series is made possible by a grant from the Congregation Ahabat Shalom Religious Fund and other generous donors.
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