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A collection of 416 photographs from The Archives of the
American Soviet Jewry Movement is now available to be viewed online.
Interactive Roll of Honor
The posthumous Roll of Honor of the Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement is dedicated to persons of all faiths that played a leadership role in the Movement. We honor and preserve their memories so that future generations will be familiar with their achievements.
New Collections Acquired for AASJM
Pamela B. Cohen, the former National President of Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry donated her personal archives spanning 15 years and 16 linear feet worth of correspondence, administrative documents, trip reports, Refusenik files, photographs and audio recordings of telephone conversations between the Jews in the USA and the Refuseniks in the Soviet Union.
Adele and Joel Sandberg, co-founders of South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry donated the papers documenting their involvement in the Soviet Jewry Movement.
A gift from Doris H. Goldstein includes a scrapbook with
photos, clippings and
other artifacts of her 1987 trip to the USSR
where she visited a number of Jewish communities in the European and
Asian parts of the Soviet Union among other materials reflecting Mrs.
Goldsteins activities in the Movement in 1970's and 1980's.
Kenneth J. Bialkin Presented with Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award
AJHS gave its 2009 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award to its chairman emeritus, Kenneth J. Bialkin, for his lifetime of leadership and contribution to the Jewish people and to Israel, and for founding the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at AJHS.
Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz who presented the award, praised Bialkin for his persistent advocacy at the highest levels of government on behalf of Soviet Jews.
MLK Speech Discovered
A reel-to-reel tape of a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry in December 1966 was discovered by our project archivists this month, part of AJHS’ Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, spear-headed by former AJHS Board Chairman Ken Bialkin. The 5-minute speech was heard, over the telephone, in 32 communities around the nation. The tape has been transferred to CD-ROM and AJHS hopes to make it available to scholars and the public online.
New Link to Association Remember and Save
The Archive of the Jewish Aliya Movement in the USSR, is a voluntary organization that collects, preserves and provides access to the personal archives and recollections of former refuniks and Zionist activists of the aliyah movement in the Former Soviet Union, 1967-89. The organization’s collections include documents, photographs, video and audio recordings as well as books and other publications on the aliyah movement and Soviet Union. The organization is based in Haifa, Israel.
www.soviet-jews-exodus.com
