“The Response of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to the crisis of Soviet Jewish émigré dropouts (Noshrim) in the 1970s” Fred Lazin, Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University of the Negev lazin@bgu.ac.il Paper presented at the 6 th Annual EAIS Conference, University of Wroclaw, Poland, September 10-12, 2017. 1 This is a draft version and should not be quoted. 1 An earlier version of this paper was presented at the workshop “The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee: 100 Years of Jewish History” held in New York City, September 2014.