On Thursday, October 14 at 7:30PM, Gal Beckerman will read from his new book When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone, a history of the Soviet Jewry movement at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope.

Beckerman, a reporter for The Forward, writes about what happened after World War II, when nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. Unwanted by the Stalinist state, they were forbidden to leave. Beckerman’s book tells the story of their rescue.

The author was a longtime editor and staff writer at the Columbia Journalism Review and has also written for the New York Times Book Review, Jerusalem Post, and Utne Reader, among other publications. He was a Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin and the recipient of a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. His first book, When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in September 2010.