1st Edition

Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967 Part 2: 1957–1961

Edited By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov Copyright 2025
402 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

402 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book, spanning the years 1957–1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are communications composed by successive Soviet ambassadors in Israel and Israeli ambassadors in Moscow... Read more

Preface to the Four-Part Set  Glossary and Abbreviations  Documents 157–327  Biographical Notes: Part 2  Bibliography: Part 2

Biography

Yaacov Ro’i, Professor of History Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, wrote his PhD thesis on Israeli–Soviet relations; it was published as Soviet Decision Making in Practice: The USSR and Israel, 1947–1954 (1980). He also headed the team of academic editors of this book’s predecessor covering the years 1941–1953 (2000).

Yehoshua Freundlich was State Archivist, 2006–2012, and is presently retired. His PhD thesis from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was titled “Zionist diplomacy prior to the establishment of Israel.” He was, for many years, editor and compiler of diplomatic papers of Israel in the Israel State Archives.

Boris Morozov, Research Fellow at the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, specializes in Soviet Jewish history and Israeli–Soviet relations. He authored Documents on Soviet Jewish Emigration (1999), co-authored Exiled to Palestine: The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union, 1924–1934 (2006), and co-edited The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War (2008).