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Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. Student Struggle for Soviet Jerwy records 1956-2006 1964-1991.

Title: Student Struggle for Soviet Jerwy records 1956-2006 1964-1991.

Correspondence, questionnaires and statistical information on refuseniks, press releases and publicity material, newsletters, photographs, publications, reel-to-reel tapes, audiocassettes, videotapes, CDs, and buttons, bumper stickers, posters, uniforms and other ephemera.

ArchivalResource: ca. 250 linear feet (leavesf.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155243502 View

Records of the Houston Action for Soviet Jewry, 1966-1997 (bulk 1984-1993)

Title: Records of the Houston Action for Soviet Jewry 1966-1997 (bulk 1984-1993)

This collection contains the institutional records of the Houston Action for Soviet Jewry, mainly news clippings, correspondence, files about refuseniks, and various materials and programs for events which Houston Action for Soviet Jewry sponsored or was involved with. There are also some materials from other organizations set up to aid Soviet Jewry, including the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews, the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. Many of these materials concern the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as in the 1990s, soon after the end of the Soviet Union.

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http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=798129 View

Action for Soviet Jewry, records, undated, 1943, 1964-1994

Title: Action for Soviet Jewry, records undated, 1943, 1964-1994

The collection contains the records of the ASJ, an organization active in the Boston area, which survives today as Action for Post-Soviet Jewry, as well as those of two other organizations closely related to ASJ: the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center. The bulk of the collection is from the decade starting in the late 1970s through the late 1980s. The collection includes large databases on Refuseniks, prisoners of conscience and Jewish émigrés. Along with the database spreadsheet forms there are a large number of individual files. Among these files are materials related to Soviet Jewish refugees in Italy from the time of the Ladispoli crisis of the late 1980s. The collection also includes a substantial number of reports from visits to the USSR by ASJ activists and other travelers cooperating with the Soviet Jewry Movement as well as a considerable number of photographs, posters and publications.

ArchivalResource: 108.6 linear feet (139 manuscript boxes and 23 [16x20"] oversized boxes)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=254789 View

Peter Reddaway photograph collection, 1968-1988.

Title: Peter Reddaway photograph collection, 1968-1988.

Photographs of Soviet dissidents, collected by Peter Reddaway. This collection is part of the Andrei Sakharov Archives.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01537/catalog View

Laurel Gould (1931-2008) and Alan J. Gould (1929- ), papers, undated, 1963, 1969-1982 (bulk 1970-1980)

Title: Laurel Gould (1931-2008) and Alan J. Gould (1929- ), papers undated, 1963, 1969-1982 (bulk 1970-1980)

The collection contains papers of Laurel Gould and her lawyer husband Alan J. Gould, activists of the American Soviet Jewry Movement involved with the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews in Washington D. C. area and in the San Fracisco Bay area, Northern California Lawyers Committee for Soviet Jews and National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The bulk of the collection covers the decade of 1970 through 1980. The materials include correspondence, memoranda, individual files on Soviet Jewish Refuseniks, documentation of special projects, events and visits to USSR, publications, legal materials pertinent to the Soviet Jewry, photographs, slides and audio recordings of conversations and interviews with the Soviet Jews.

ArchivalResource: 6.75

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=384359 View

Jerry Goodman, papers, undated, 1954, 1959-2008, 2011 (bulk 1971-1989)

Title: Jerry Goodman, papers undated, 1954, 1959-2008, 2011 (bulk 1971-1989)

The collection contains papers of Jerry Goodman, the founding director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, the largest and most influential organization created by the American Jews to coordinate efforts on behalf of Soviet Jews, which survives today as NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia. The bulk of the collection covers the activities from the early 1970s through late 1980s. The collection includes some minutes of meetings, memoranda, correspondence, newsletters and publications of the NCSJ and its precursor, the American Jewish Committee on Soviet Jewry (AJCSJ, 1964-1971). Among other materials are some posters and considerable number of photographs on Refuseniks and of the ASJM events in New York and the US, audio recordings on compact cassettes and reel-to-reels re-mastered into CD format, and VHS tapes. The collection also contains non-paper objects like pins, pendants, bracelets devoted to prisoners of conscience in the USSR, as well as a t-shirt, a scarf and a shopping bag.

ArchivalResource: 27.5 linear feet (47 manuscript boxes, 3 half manuscript boxes, 1 OS1 box, 1 SB2 box, 1 PHONO box, 1 MAP folder)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=355968 View

Joel G. Ackerman Soviet Jewry collection, undated, 1948, 1965, 1967, 1975-1988

Title: Joel G. Ackerman Soviet Jewry collection undated, 1948, 1965, 1967, 1975-1988

Contains newsletters and related documents composed by San Francisco area organizations pertaining to Soviet Jewry. The newsletters are composed by American Jewish activists on behalf of Soviet Jewish refuseniks and refugees. The documents provide insight into the daily lives of Soviet Jewry and the American Jewish fight for Soviet freedom during the 1970s and 1980s. The newsletters document different organizations and attempts to aid Soviet Jewry, their status and their plight. Organizational newsletters included are from such organizations as: The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry and Northern California Lawyers' Committee for Soviet Jews. Highlights of the collection include UN Human Rights documents, the Pesach Project (1978-1979) and Twinning programs for Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (10 manuscript boxes), and 1 oversized folder

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=161190 View

Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry Records (Formerly Papers of Carolyn W. Sanger, *P-870), undated, 1962, 1965-2001 (bulk 1970-1990)

Title: Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry Records (Formerly Papers of Carolyn W. Sanger, *P-870) undated, 1962, 1965-2001 (bulk 1970-1990)

The collection contains records of the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, a grassroots volunteer membership organization that was founded in 1968 and existed until 2001. The organization was renamed the Greater Washington Committee for Post-Soviet Jewry after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Committee worked to raise awareness of the plight of Soviet Jewry in the United States and supported Jewish communities on the U.S.S.R. territories, during the rule of the Soviet regime and after its collapse. The records cover the period from the mid-1960s through 2001, and the bulk of the collection is dated 1970s-1980s. The documents include correspondence, memoranda, publications, news clippings, photographs, slides, ephemera, audio and video recordings and 3-D objects. Originally the collection was titled Papers of Carolyn W. Sanger, *P-870 by the name of the Committee's last president.

ArchivalResource: 13.5 linear feet (26 manuscript boxes, 1 oversized box, 1 MAP folder)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=384545 View

Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Title: Andreĭ Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Papers of Russian physicist and human rights activist Andreĭ Sakharov.

ArchivalResource: 137 boxes (57 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01977/catalog View