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Action for Post-Soviet Jewry Records
Collection
Identifier: JHCI-018
Abstract
This collection contains subject files, project files, correspondence, programs, brochures, meeting minutes, financial records, newsletters, case files, and photographs documenting the activities and administration of Action for Post-Soviet Jewry (formerly Action for Soviet Jewry), an organization dedicated to aiding and engaging with Jewish communities and individuals in former Soviet states.
Dates:
undated, 1971-2019
Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry at Brandeis University Records
Collection
Identifier: I-493
Abstract
The Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry (SCSJ) was founded in 1977 in response to the arrest of Anatoly B. Shcharansky. Thirteen students from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts went to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress about the problems faced by Jews in the Soviet Union. The numbers of students involved continued to grow, and expanded to include students from other colleges and universities in the United States. The Washington Lobby, which was held every February, provided...
Dates:
undated, 1977-1989
The Barbara Gaffin Papers
Collection
Identifier: JHCP-017
Abstract
This collection contains materials related to the life and work of Barbara Gaffin, with a particular focus on her efforts to raise awareness about and assist Ethiopian Jews and to build ties between Bostonian Jews and their sister community of Jews in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The collection also contains some materials about Gaffin’s activities relating to Yemeni and Soviet Jews. Included are newspaper clippings, correspondence, records of speaking engagements, writings, travel records,...
Dates:
Majority of material found in undated, 1956-2019
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- Antisemitism 1
- Antisemitism -- Soviet Union 1
- Audiovisual materials 1
- Business records 1
- Dnipro (Ukraine) 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Former Soviet states 1
- Jewish refugees 1
- Jewish women 1
- Jews -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History 1
- Jews -- Soviet Union -- History 1
- Jews -- Soviet Union -- Intellectual life 1
- Jews -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions 1
- Jews, Ethiopian -- History 1
- Jews, Soviet 1
- Jews, Yemeni -- History 1
- Medicine -- International cooperation 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Operation Moses, 1984-1985 1
- Operation Solomon, 1991 1
- Photographs 1
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- Axelrad, Albert S., 1938- 1
- Biden, Joseph R. 1
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- Brandeis University 1
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- Dodd, Christopher 1
- Dukakis, Michael S. (Michael Stanley), 1933- 1
- Gaffin, Barbara 1
- Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009 1
- Nudel, Ida 1
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