Jews -- Soviet Union
     Subject 
  
        Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
      
        Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry at Brandeis University Records
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      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
      
      
   