נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Rabbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rabbi</span></a> Yosef Mendelevich is best known as a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soviet</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/refusenik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refusenik</span></a> and former political <a href="https://babka.social/tags/prisoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisoner</span></a> who was sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp for his involvement in a 1970 plot to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/hijack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hijack</span></a> a plane and escape the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a>. Today, at 77, he is making headlines for a very different reason: the publication of his <a href="https://babka.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a>, “The Cantonists: <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> Boys in the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> Military, 1827-1856” by Touro University Press, being released in English for the first time."</p><p><a href="https://jewishlink.news/from-prisoner-to-scholar-rabbi-josef-mendelevichs-lifelong-fight-for-jewish-identity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jewishlink.news/from-prisoner-</span><span class="invisible">to-scholar-rabbi-josef-mendelevichs-lifelong-fight-for-jewish-identity/</span></a></p>