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- 1948-01-01
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- The case for democracy
- Never Alone
- The case for democracy
- Defending Identity
- Fear No Evil
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Natan Sharansky began life as Anatoly Shcharansky. He was a dissident and refusenik in the Soviet Union. For nine years, he was a prisoner in the Gulag. He then made his life in Israel: as a writer, a politician, a human-rights activist, and so on. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Natan+Sharansky">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי; born 20 January 1948) is a Ukrainian-born, Israeli politician, professional chess player and author. He served as Chairman of the Executive for the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018, and currently serves as Chairman for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an American non-partisan organization. A former Soviet dissident, he spent nine years imprisoned as a refusenik during the 1970s and 1980s.
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1948 birthsCarnegie Council for Ethics in International AffairsCongressional Gold Medal recipientsDenaturalized citizens of the Soviet UnionGulag detaineesHeads of the Jewish Agency for IsraelInmates of Vladimir Central PrisonIsraeli anti-communistsIsraeli curatorsIsraeli human rights activistsIsraeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descentIsraeli political writers