Rebecca Wolins correspondence and scrapbook, 1952-1985.

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Rebecca Wolins correspondence and scrapbook, 1952-1985.

1952-1985

http://magnesalm.org/notebook_fext.asp?site=magnes&book=156824

Contains correspondence and a scrapbook containing letters Wolins wrote and sent to the editor of a newspaper. She wrote some of these letters under the name of "Rebecca Horn." Topics include Soviet Jews. Organizations represented include Hadassah, O.R.T., the John Birch Society, and the Anti-Defamation League. Rebecca Lentzner Wolins, a legal secretary, was active in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Jewish communities. She was particularly concerned about the plight of the Soviet Jews, and she participated in Hadassah and the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (aka O.R.T.). For a time, she joined the John Birch Society, and she reported on that organization's activities to the Anti-Defamation League.

8 folders.

Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6814129

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