The Soviet Jewry Movement (circa 1963-1990) was a worldwide effort to obtain freedom for Jews in the Soviet Union to practice their religion without state persecution or discrimination or to emigrate to Israel, the United States or elsewhere to seek the blessings of freedom, and to pursue lives of their own choosing.
The American Jewish Historical Society has established its Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement to help assure that the story of the role played by Americans of all faiths in that Movement will be collected and preserved so that future generations will be familiar with, and inspired by, their achievements.
Kenneth J. Bialkin Chairman, Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
Henry Feingold Chair, Academic Advisory Council
Susan Malbin, Director of NEH Project
For more information about this project and other AJHS initiatives, please visit www.ajhs.org.
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News from the Archives:
Finding aid for the Moshe Decter Papers, 1958-1980, 1982, 1989-1990, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2002-2003, P-899.
Now accessible:
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Finding aid for the Pamela B. Cohen Papers, 1968-2005, 2007, 2009, P-897.
Now accessible:
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Finding aid for the David Waksberg Papers,, 1970-1997, P-895.
Now accessible:
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Finding aid for the Records of the Houston Action for Soviet Jewry, 1966-1997, I-500.
Now accessible:
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Finding aid for the Pinchas Mordechai Teitz, Papers, 1967-1968, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1977-1982, P-891.
Now accessible:
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Finding aid for the Margery Sanford Papers, 1973-1980, 1984-1986, 1988, P-889.
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Finding aid for the David H. Hill Papers, 1958, 1963-1974, 1976, 1979-1998, 2000, P-888.
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Finding aid for the Doris H. Goldstein Papers, 1979, 1981, 1987-1988, 2009, P-887.
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Finding aid for the Leonard S. Cahan Papers, 1985-1986, P-883.
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Finding aid for the Shaul Osadchey Papers, undated, 1968-1978, 1980-1981, 1983-1992, P-882.
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Finding aid for the Sanford A. Gradinger Papers, undated, 1985, 1993-1995, 2007, 2009, P-880.
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Finding aid for the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews Record, undated, 1948, 1954, 1963-1965, 1967-2000, I-410, I-410A.
Now accessible:
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Digital Collection:American Soviet Jewry Movement Photographs,
undated, 1914, 1968-1970, 1972-1986, 1988-1989, 1991, I-495.
416 digitized photographs from The Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement.
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