A Virtual Conversation with Natan Sharansky

Please join us virtually on November 2, 2020 as we have a conversation with Former Reagan Freedom Award recipient and Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky and American historian Dr. Gil Troy on their brand-new book, Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People (Publish Date: September 1, 2020).  This event will be streamed on our YouTube channel (YouTube.com/ReaganFoundation), and pre-signed copies of the book can be purchased during the registration process. To register for the event, please click here.

Natan Sharansky was born in Ukraine in 1948 and studied mathematics in Moscow. He worked as an English interpreter for the great Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, and himself became a champion of Soviet Jewry and a worker for human rights. Convicted in 1978 on trumped-up charges of treason and spying for the United States, Sharansky was sentenced to 13 years in prison. After years in the Siberian gulag, he was released in a U.S.-Soviet prisoner exchange in 1986 and moved to Israel, where he founded a political party promoting the acculturation of Soviet immigrants. He has since served in cabinet positions in multiple Israeli governments.

A Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University currently living in Jerusalem, Gil Troy is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist. Recently designated an Algemeiner J-100, one of the top 100 people “positively influencing Jewish life,” he has authored 13 books on the American presidency and Jewish thought.