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Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy: ‘Never Alone’

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September 3, 2020
Gil Troy Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy discuss their new book — “Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People.”
Gil Troy is an American presidential historian and a commentator on politics and other issues. He is Professor of History at McGill University and was a 2015 visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution.
Natan Sharansky is an Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons. He served as chairman of the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018. He currently serves as the chairman of the Institute of the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.

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