AJHS Chairman Emeritus Ken Bialkin held a joint reception this past Wednesday with The Forward to honor Gal Beckerman, author of the prize-winning history of the Soviet Jewry movement, When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone (Houghton Mifflin). Important research for the book was conducted at the AJHS archives. Pictured here, left to right, Ken Bialkin, Gal Beckerman, Sam Norich (Forward publisher), and Julius Berman. Click here to download Kenneth Bialkin's remarks