Oral history interview with Murray Richtel, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Shirley S. Steele and filmed by Anne Marie Pois, 2010. 2010.

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Oral history interview with Murray Richtel, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Shirley S. Steele and filmed by Anne Marie Pois, 2010. 2010.

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In this interview Judge Murray Richtel recalls leading a group of lawyers and judges on a trip to the USSR in 1986. He remembers the subtext of that trip being for him to contact Soviet Jews and learn first hand about the dimensions of the refusenik situation. He describes some of the people he met, both Jews and Soviet officials, and his own growing feeling that something had to be done to help the refuseniks and how this resulted in the founding, with several others, of Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry (BASJ). Parallel with this founding of BASJ was the community action specifically to help Naum Meiman, a distinguished mathematician and refusenik, to leave the Soviet Union. Judge Richtel also talks about the specific interactions of BASJ and the Boulder/Dushanbe Sister City Project.

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