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 Union of Councils for Soviet Jews Records,, undated, 1948, 1954, 1963-1965, 1967-2000 I-410, I-410A. Now accessible: click here. (Large file, allow time to load)
Finding aid for the Elaine Pittell Papers, undated, 1974-1991, 1993-1994, P-873.Now accessible: click here.
Finding aid for the Joel Sandberg and Adele Sandberg Papers, undated, 1974-1988, 1992, 1994-1995, 2009, P-872.Now accessible: click here.
Finding aid for the Si Frumkin Papers, undated, 1985, 1988-1989, P-871. Now accessible: click here.
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.
Now accessible:
click here.
Finding aid for the Carolyn W. Sanger Papers, undated, 1962, 1965-2001, P-870. Now accessible: click here.
Finding aid for the Laurel Gould and Alan J. Gould Papers, undated, 1963, 1969-1982, P-866. Now accessible: click here.
