Gitlin was also very active in other areas. In the late 1960s he. along with a few other people. formed the Council of Soviet antiSemitism. The council was very effective in bringing attention to the actions of the Soviet Union which were discriminatory against Soviet Jews. The sin. gling out of Soviet Jews for public humiliation was a practice that was unknown previously to the American public. This human rights organization sensitized the American people to what was actually happening in the Soviet Union. As a result of this publicity. many Jews were permitted to emigrate from the Soviet Union. At home. Dr.
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