Oral history interview with Roxanne Bailin, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Brandon Springer and filmed by Felicia Furman, 2010. 2010.

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Oral history interview with Roxanne Bailin, [electronic resource] / interviewed by Brandon Springer and filmed by Felicia Furman, 2010. 2010.

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Judge Roxanne Bailin discusses her role in the initial founding of Boulder Action for Soviet Jewry with Bill Cohen, and her motivations for being a part of the project. She first discusses a trip to the Soviet Union, from Dushanbe to Moscow, with fellow BASJ member Rebecca Bradley. During the trip Bailin and Bradley made secret contact with Jewish refuseniks, including Naum Meiman, living in the cities they visited. Bailin later discusses her interactions with Jewish emigres living in Boulder, including one family she had met on her initial trip to Dushanbe. Her narrative details her role as "The Judge With a Truck", driving around Boulder collecting furniture and housewares, later stored in her barn for use in setting up homes for the Jewish refugees BASJ brought from the former Soviet Union.

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Cohen, William S. (William Sebastian), 1940-

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William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician, lawyer and author. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Maine's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979, as U.S. Senator from Maine from 1979 to 1997, and as Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. Born in Bangor, Maine, he attended public schools there, graduating from Bangor High School before earning a B.A. from Bowdoin College and an ...

Springer, Brandon,

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Bradley, Rebecca S. (Rebecca Sue)

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Meiman, Naum.

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Bailin, Roxanne

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Furman, Felicia

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