Julia Mates Cheney papers 2001-2002

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Julia Mates Cheney papers, 2001-2002

Julia Mates Cheney papers 2001-2002

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=161191

This collection consists of a published copy of Cheney's Master's thesis, Narratives of Courage: Oral Histories of Jewish Émigrés from the Former Soviet Union, that she submitted to the Public History program of California State University, Sacramento in 2002. As part of her research, Cheney conducted oral history interviews with five Russian Jewish immigrants and one non-Jewish spouse of a Jewish immigrant. The collection includes audiotapes of these interviews, biographical worksheets, release forms, and transcripts. These materials offer a kind of coda to the long epic of the Soviet Jewish struggle to emigrate, as the speakers look back and relate, in English, their struggles in the USSR and subsequent life in the U.S.

1 linear foot (2 manuscript boxes)

eng,

American Jewish Historical Society