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Soviet Jewry rally on Simḥat Torah, 1983

Links

American Soviet Jewry Movement Related Collections at Other Institutions

University of Denver

Beck Archives
Committee of Concerned Citizens for Soviet Jews in Denver, 1968-1991

Wheaton College

Charles Colson Papers. Click here for the finding aid.

Yeshiva University Archives

Records of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
Digital Collection: Posters from the Records of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington

Voices of the Vigil: Documenting the Soviet Jewry Movement
Archival collecting, oral histories, traveling exhibition, curriculum for students, Living History production, public programs, publications.

Cleveland Jewish History

Involvement in the Soviet Jewry Movement, online presentation by Louis Rosenblum.
The Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism Records, 1960-1983
Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism Photographs, 1965-1977
Louis Rosenblum Papers, 1964-2004
Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism Audio Tapes

University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

Leonard Schroeter Papers. Click here for the finding aid.

Related material

Beyond the Pale: A reunion between President Mikhail Gorbachev & Secretary of State George Shultz, moderated by Charlie Rose. March 29, 2009. Click here to view online.

"To the Footsoldiers of the Soviet Jewry Moverment," by Connie Smukler in the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia newsletter, January 24, 2008. Click here (pdf, click here for Adobe Reader)

Weblinks

Association Remember and Save

The Archive of the Jewish Aliya Movement in the USSR, is a voluntary organization devoted to gathering and preserving the personal archives of former refusniks, prisoners of Zion and aliyah activists.
www.soviet-jews-exodus.com

Read about the American Soviet Jewry Movement on My Jewish Learning.com