Let My People Go: Review of When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle To Save Soviet Jewry - '...Toward the end of the book, Beckerman describes the massive rally on the National Mall in December 1987, in which American Jewry came together in a remarkable display of unity and purpose. There was that day a "feeling of collective strength [that] simply would have been impossible twenty-five years before . . . They had come to do something together, and they had done it." What they had done, through a fractious process that was the exuberant opposite of social engineering and social planning, was grasp the deep political and cultural currents of their times and fashion a new Jewish politics that deftly united the imperatives of physical and cultural survival. Nothing, he notes, has united them in the same way ever since.'