The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry is a 1966 non-fiction book by Elie Wiesel.
Wiesel "concludes that despite the remorseless propaganda and harsh exactions of the government, soviet Jews still feel they share in the purpose and destiny of the Jewish people.
[5][6] The original edition had a 34-page "Historical Afterword on Soviet Jewry", written by the book's translator Neal Kozodoy.
[7] In The New York Times, Isaac Bashevis Singer praised the book as "one passionate outcry, both in content and style.
"[7] In Commentary, Max Hayward wrote, "after reading this book nobody will be able to deny that the state of Russian Jewry remains a legitimate cause for concern in the outside world.