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Guide to the Records of Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry,
undated, 1962, 1965-2001

*I-540

(Formerly Papers of Carolyn W. Sanger, *P-870)

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Electronic finding aid was encoded in EAD 2002 by Andrey Filimonov in 2012. Description is in English.

Descriptive Summary

Creator: Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry
Title: Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry Records (Formerly Papers of Carolyn W. Sanger, *P-870)
Dates: undated, 1962, 1965-2001 (bulk 1970-1990)
Abstract: The collection contains records of the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, a grassroots volunteer membership organization that was founded in 1968 and existed until 2001. The organization was renamed the Greater Washington Committee for Post-Soviet Jewry after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Committee worked to raise awareness of the plight of Soviet Jewry in the United States and supported Jewish communities on the U.S.S.R. territories, during the rule of the Soviet regime and after its collapse. The records cover the period from the mid-1960s through 2001, and the bulk of the collection is dated 1970s-1980s. The documents include correspondence, memoranda, publications, news clippings, photographs, slides, ephemera, audio and video recordings and 3-D objects. Originally the collection was titled Papers of Carolyn W. Sanger, *P-870 by the name of the Committee's last president.
Languages: The collection is in English, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, and French.
Quantity: 13.5 linear feet (26 manuscript boxes, 1 oversized box, 1 MAP folder)
Identification: I-540
Repository: American Jewish Historical Society
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Historical Note

The Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry records represent one collection housed within the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM). These papers reflect the effort, beginning in the 1960s through the late 1980s, of thousands of American Jews of all denominations and political orientations to stop the persecution and discrimination of Jews in the Soviet Union. The American Soviet Jewry Movement (ASJM) is considered to be the most influential Movements of the American Jewish community in the 20th century. The beginnings of the organized American Soviet Jewry Movement became a model for efforts to aid Soviet Jews in other countries, among them Great Britain, Canada, and France. The movement can be traced to the early 1960s, when the first organizations were created to address the specific problem of the persecution and isolation of Soviet Jews by the government of the Soviet Union.

The Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry (WCSJ) was a grassroots volunteer membership organization founded in 1968. The organization was renamed the Greater Washington Committee for Post-Soviet Jewry after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, and disbanded in 2001. The goal of the WCSJ was to help Jews emigrate from the Soviet Union and the Former Soviet Union regions, to aid Jews in the U.S.S.R. and the Former Soviet Union and to activate the Washington Community on behalf of Soviet Jewry. The Greater Washington Committee for Post-Soviet Jewry was dedicated to ensuring that Jews in the countries of the Former Soviet Union could lead lives in which their physical and spiritual needs were met. During the thirty-three years of its existence, the WCSJ took on a multitude of initiatives designed to raise awareness of the plight of Soviet Jewry. The Bar Mitzvah twinning program, Adopt-A-Refusenik Family, the Pepsi Boycott, and the Daily Vigil across the street from the Soviet Embassy, were some of the many activities that the WCSJ organized or participated in. Travelers to the USSR were recruited and instructed to carry out direct help to the families of the Refuseniks. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Committee continued to support those Jews who remained in the Former Soviet Union by supplying them with food packages, medicine, Judaic teaching materials and other essentials.

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Scope and Content Note

The collection is divided into ten series.

The Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry include materials from the mid-1960s through 2001, and the bulk of the collection is dated 1970s-1980s. The documents include correspondence, memoranda, publications, news clippings, photographs, slides, ephemera, audio and video recordings and 3-D objects.

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Arrangement

The collection is divided into ten series as follows:

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Director of Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their fragility.

Use Restrictions

Information concerning the literary rights may be obtained from the Director of Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society. Users must apply in writing for permission to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection. For more information contact:

American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, N.Y., 10011 reference@ajhs.org

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Related Material

The Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry records is one individual collection within the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM) located at the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). Other Soviet Jewry Movement collections at AJHS include the records of Action for Soviet Jewry (I-487), the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ; I-181 and I-181A), the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (I-410, I-410A), Houston Action for Soviet Jewry (I-500), Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews (I-505), Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry (I-507), The Jewish Chronicle Soviet Jewry Collection (I-523), B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Soviet Jewry Movement Collection (I-529), Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry (I-530), Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism (I-538), the papers of Joel Ackerman (P-787), Julia Mates Cheney (P-806), Jerry Goodman (P-863), Laurel and Alan J. Gould (P-866), Leah Lieberman (P-869), Si Frumkin (P-871), Elaine Pittell (P-873), Sanford A. Gradinger (P-880), Shaul Osadchey (P-882), Leonard S. Cahan (P-883), Doris H. Goldstein (P-887), David H. Hill (P-888), Margery Sanford (P-889), Pinchas Mordechai Teitz (P-891), David Waksberg (P-895), Pamela B. Cohen (P-897), Moshe Decter (P-899), William Korey (P-903), Morey Schapira (P-906), Charlotte Gerper Turner (P-907), Myrtle Sitowitz (P-908), Kathleen M. Hyman (P-911), Babette Wampold (P-912), Rabbi David Goldstein and Shannie Goldstein (P-918), Leslie Schaffer (P-923), Arthur Bernstein (P-925), Dolores Wilkenfeld (P-927), Sylvia Weinberg (P-928) , Irwin H. Krasna (P-934) , Constance S. Kreshtool (P-935), Betty Golomb (P-938), Grace Perlbinder (P-942), Mort Yadin (P-943), Ann Polunsky (P-886), Lillian Foreman (P-945), Marilyn Labendz(P-946), Abraham Silverstein(P-947) and Bert Silver(P-949).

Additional materials from other collections include records dealing with the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) located within the North American Jewish Students Appeal (NAJSA, I-338) and the records of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC, I-172). Related records are also located at the AJHS in Newton Centre, MA including memorabilia and ephemera of the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (I-237) and the Records of the Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry – Brandeis University (I-493).

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry Records (Formerly Papers of Carolyn W. Sanger, *P-870); I-540; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.

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Acquisition Information

Donated by the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2007.

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Processing Information

This collection was donated to AJHS as Carolyn W. Sanger Papers in 2007. It was processed under that title in 2009. Carolyn W. Sanger presided over the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry/Greater Washington Committee for Post-Soviet Jewry from the early 1990's until its disbandment in 2001. In 2012 another president of the Committee who led the organization during the 1980s, Mrs. Sanger's predicessor Joan Dodek, suggested a more appropriate title and description for the collection. Considering that it spans the entire thirty-three years of the WCSJ existence and documents its activities under the leadership of several presidents it was decided that the more historically accurate title would be the Records of the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry. The collection was renamed and the Finding Aid edited accordingly in December of 2012.

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Access Points

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Container List

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

 

Series I: Correspondence and Administrative Materials, undated, 1967-1968, 1970-1975, 1977-2000.
This series is in English and Yiddish.
10 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series I is divided into two subseries.

Subseries A contains correspondence of the WCSJ staff and other Soviet Jewry Movement activists with the Jews in the USSR, Former Soviet Union, as well as Soviet and Post-Soviet Jewish immigrants in Israel, the USA and other countries.

Subseries B includes administrative materials of the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry and the Greater Washington Committee for Post-Soviet Jewry.

Subseries A: Correspondence, undated, undated, 1978, 1980-1995.
This subseries is in English and Yiddish.
2 folders.
Box Folder Title Date
1 1 Correspondence 1978, 1980-1986
    (contains Yiddish)   
1 2 Correspondence undated, 1987-1995
    (contains Russian)   

Subseries B: Administrative Materials, undated, 1967-1968, 1970-1975, 1977-1979, 1991, 1996-2000.
This subseries is in English.
8 folders.
Box Folder Title Date
1 3 Greater Washington Committee for the Post-Soviet Jewry undated, 1991, 2000
1 4 Washington Committee Board (Yad L' Yad) undated, 1996-1998
1 5 Washington Committee Board (Yad L' Yad) undated, 1996-1998, 2000
1 6 Washington Committee Board (Yad L' Yad) undated, 1998-1999
1 7 Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Action Advisory undated, 1975, 1977-1979
1 8 Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Early History undated, 1967-1968, 1970-1974
1 9 Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Mission Statement and Related Materials undated, 1974, 1977
1 10 Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, General undated, 1971-1975, 1977-1979
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Series II: Soviet Jewish Refuseniks and Prisoners of Conscience, 1962, 1965-1966, 1969-1991.
This series is in English.
94 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series II is divided into three subseries.

Subseries A contains individual files on Soviet Refuseniks and prisoners of conscience. A typical personal file contains information on the status of a person, his or her family members, address and place of work; time when the person submitted an application for emigration, reason for refusal, occasional information on visits by persons from the West and other information. Some individual folders include photographs of the persons, as well as correspondence with them.

Subseries B includes lists of the Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience, information on their arrests, trials and imprisonment conditions, addresses of their families, lists of prisons and labor camps in the USSR and other pertinent information.

Subseries C contains information on the former Soviet Jewish Refuseniks who were eventually able to immigrate from the USSR.

Subseries A: Individual Files on Soviet Jewish Refuseniks and Prisoners of Conscience, undated, 1969-1991.
This subseries is in English.
86 folders.
Box Folder Title Date
2 1 Alexandrovich, Ruth undated, 1971-1972
2 2 Azbel, David 1973-1974
2 3 Begun Yosef undated, 1978, 1983-1987
2 4 Beilina, Dina 1974, 1976
2 5 Belkindas, Mikhail undated, 1987
2 6 Berenshtein, Yosef undated, 1981, 1985-1987
2 7 Berkovsky, Yuri and Anna undated, 1974-1977
2 8 Bershadskaya, Luba undated, 1969-1971, 1973
2 9 Blatnoi, David, Dr. undated, 1987
2 10 Brailovsky, Viktor undated, 1982, 1986
2 11 Brannover, Herman and Ishai undated, 1972
2 12 Brodetskaya, Tina undated, 1972
2 13 Edelstein, Yuli undated, 1984-1986
2 14 Elbert, Lev undated, 1983-1987
2 15 Fradkova, Nadezhda undated
2 16 Genis, Anatoly undated, 1990-1991
2 17 Goldfarb, David undated, 1974, 1986
2 18 Goldfarb, Elena undated, 1986-1987
2 19 Goldstein Family undated, 1972-1980, 1985
Box Folder Title Date
3 1 Gorodetsky, Yanov undated, 1985
3 2 Gurfel, Benor undated, 1975-1976
3 3 Irlin, Joseph undated, 1981-1982, 1986
3 4 Keiss-Kuna, Elena undated, 1985-1988
3 5 Khazanov, Anatoly, Dr. 1982
3 6 Kholmiansky, Alexander 1985
3 7 Kislik, Vladimir undated, 1979, 1986-1989
3 8 Knokh, Arie Leib 1974-1975, 1977-1978
3 9 Knokh, Vladimir undated, 1987-1988
3 10 Kochublyevsky, Boris undated, 1968-1972
3 11 Kopman-Slovin, Lea 1970
3 12 Kosharovsky, Yuli 1988
3 13 Kotlyar, Mark 1989
3 14 Lein, Evgeny undated, 1981-1988
3 15 Lerner, Alexander undated, 1972, 1977-1988
3 16 Lifshitz-Tretyakova, Tamara undated, 1985
3 17 Lifshitz, Vladimir 1986-1987
3 18 Luntz, Alexander 1976
3 19 Mager, Mikhail undated, 1975-1977
3 20 Makhlis, Leonid and Vladimir 1972
3 21 Margarik, Alexei 1986-1987
3 22 Meiman, Naum undated, 1976-1978
3 23 Mendelevich, Iosif undated, 1972, 1981
3 24 Mesh, Yakov 1985
Box Folder Title Date
4 1 Nudel, Ida undated, 1975-1987
4 2 Okun, Yefim 1987-1988
4 3 Palanker, Evgeny undated, 1985-1986
4 4 Palatnik, Raisa undated, 1970-1972
4 5 Panov, Valery undated, 1973
4 6 Paritsky, Alexander undated, 1987
4 7 Penson, Boris undated, 1972-1973, 1975
4 8 Polsky, Victor undated, 1974
4 9 Poltinnikov, Isaac and Family 1973-1976
4 10 Rachlenko Family undated, 1977-1980
4 11 Reinberg, Eugene 1976-1977
4 12 Rigerman, Leonid undated, 1971
4 13 Roizman, Alexander 1974-1976
4 14 Rubin, Vitaly 1975-1976
4 15 Rubinstein, Boris 1974
4 16 Rusinek, Alla undated, 1971
4 17 Rutman, Roman 1972
4 18 Sakharov, Andrei undated, 1971, 1973-1974, 1977, 1980-1981, 1983-1986, 1989
4 19 Salansky, Naum 1977
4 20 Samoylovich, Debora 1974-1975
4 21 Shapiro, Dan undated, 1985
4 22 Shapiro, Judy Silver and Gabriel undated, 1972
Box Folder Title Date
5 1 Sharansky, Anatoly undated, 1977-1978, 1981
5 2 Shifrin, Avraham 1974
5 3 Shraiber, Yosef 1977-1978
5 4 Shtern, Mikhail, Dr. undated, 1974-1977
5 5 Slepak, Mariya undated
5 6 Slepak, Vladimir undated, 1971-1972, 1976, 1979, 1986-1987
5 7 Stolar, Abe 1978-1979, 1983, 1985-1988
5 8 Sverdlin, Vladimir undated, 1976
5 9 Tartakovsky, Yuli undated, 1974
5 10 Tiemkin, Marina undated, 1973
5 11 Tsirlin, Leonid undated, 1973-1977
5 12 Tsitverblit, Isaac undated, 1987
5 13 Tufeld, Vladimir undated, 1987-1988
Box Folder Title Date
6 1 Turkeltaub, Vladimir 1982, 1986-1987
6 2 Uspensky Family 1982, 1985-1989
6 3 Volovsky, Leonid 1986-1987
6 4 Yelistratov, Victor undated, 1978-1980, 1986-1988
6 5 Zalmonson, Sylva undated, 1971-1972, 1974
6 6 Zelichonok, Ronald undated, 1985-1989
6 7 Zlotver, Dina and Isacc 1975-1978
6 8 Zunshain, Zachar undated, 1984-1986

Subseries B: Prisoners of Conscience, undated, 1962, 1965-1966, 1970-1973, 1975-1980, 1984, 1986.
This subseries is in English.
6 folders.
Box Folder Title Date
6 9 Arrests of Soviet Jewish Dissidents in October 1976 1976
6 10 Leningrad Trials, POC's Bios 1971-1972
6 11 Prisoners of Conscience undated, 1971-1973, 1975, 1977-1978, 1984, 1986, 1988
6 12 Prisoners of Conscience undated, 1971-1973, 1975, 1978-1979
Box Folder Title Date
7 1 Prisoners of Conscience undated, 1970, 1975-1980
7 2 Prisoners of Conscience undated, 1962, 1965-1966, 1972, 1979-1980

Subseries C: Former Soviet Jewish Refuseniks, undated, 1976-1980, 1982-1987.
This subseries is in English.
2 folders.
Box Folder Title Date
7 3 Former Refuseniks undated, 1982-1987
7 4 Former Refuseniks undated, 1976-1980, 1982-1983, 1985
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Series III: Emigration from USSR, undated, 1970-1977, 1979-1980, 1986-1987, 1989-1990.
This series is in English.
7 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series III contains information on the issues concerning immigration from the USSR, emigration to the USA and the issue of Noshrim-the Soviet Jews who received permission to leave for Israel, but changed their destination for the USA or another country along the way.
Box Folder Title Date
7 5 Emigration from USSR undated, 1970-1972, 1974, 1977
7 6 Emigration of Soviet Jews: Report on Trip to the USSR 1976
7 7 Exit Tax undated, 1972-1973
7 8 Noshrim undated, 1974-1977
Box Folder Title Date
8 1 Soviet Jews and Emigration 1977, 1979-1980, 1987
8 2 Soviet Regulations on Entry and Travel Abroad undated, 1974, 1986-1987, 1989
8 3 US Refugee Issues undated, 1989-1990
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Series IV: Human Rights, Antisemitism and Legal Issues related to Jews in the USSR, undated, 1967, 1972, 1974-1982, 1984-1989.
This series is in English.
11 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series IV includes materials on Antisemitism, political abuse of psychiatry, repression of Hebrew teachers and other human rights violations that were faced by the Jews in the Soviet Union.
Box Folder Title Date
8 4 Discrimination Against Jews in Soviet Science and Higher Education undated
8 5 Enactment of a Law 1967
8 6 Hebrew Teachers in USSR undated
8 7 Helsinki Agreement and the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe undated, 1975-1979
8 8 Human Rights undated, 1972, 1974, 1977-1981, 1984, 1986-1987, 1989
8 9 Implementation of Helsinki Accords Hearing 1985-1986, 1988
Box Folder Title Date
9 1 Pamyat: Russian Nationalist Patriotic Union undated, 1988-1989
9 2 Psychiatric Abuse undated, 1977-1980, 1984
9 3 Reform and Human Rights: The Gorbachev Record 1988
9 4 Soviet Jewry and Human Rights Publications undated, 1977-1979, 1981-1982, 1984
9 5 USSR Labor Camps Hearings 1978
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Series V: Travel to USSR, undated, 1971-1979, 1981-1985, 1990.
This series is in English.
6 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series V includes information for Americans travelers to the USSR, who were intended to aid Soviet Jewish Refuseniks, as well as briefings and debriefings of such travelers.
Box Folder Title Date
9 6 Briefing and Debriefing undated, 1972, 1974, 1977-1978, 1982, 1984
9 7 Information for Visiting USSR undated, 1974-1977
9 8 Travel to USSR undated, 1981, 1985
9 9 Travel to USSR undated, 1977, 1979, 1983
9 10 Travel to USSR undated, 1973-1976, 1994
9 11 Travel to USSR undated, 1971, 1990
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Series VI: US Government, undated, 1968-1973, 1975-1991.
This series is in English.
10 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series VI includes materials on Antisemitism, political abuse of psychiatry, repression of Hebrew teachers and other human rights violations that were faced by the Jews in the Soviet Union.
Box Folder Title Date
9 12 Committee on Government Operations, selected declarations and agreements 1975-1991 (with gaps)
Box Folder Title Date
10 1 Congressional Acts, Amendments, and Resolutions undated, 1971-1973, 1975
10 2 Congressional and State responses to Soviet Jewry and Human Rights undated, 1970, 1980-1981, 1984
10 3 Congressional Record: Extension of Remarks 1971-1972
10 4 Congressional Record: House 1971-1972
10 5 Congressional Record: Senate 1971-1972
10 6 Department of State, Selected Documents, Human Rights undated
10 7 Misc. House of Representatives Hearings 1968, 1971, 1978
10 8 Soviet Jewry Hearings, Committee on Foreign Affairs 1971
10 9 US Congressional Records and Releases 1969, 1971-1972, 1975-1976, 1981
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Series VII: Projects and Events, undated, 1967, 1971-1990.
This series is in English, Hebrew and Russian.
34 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series VII contains information on projects and events aimed to aid Soviet Jewry that were organized or participated in by the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry as well as other Soviet Jewry Movement organizations.
Box Folder Title Date
10 10 Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry 1972
10 11 Adopt a Family Project undated
10 12 Adopt a Prisoner Project undated, 1971-1972, 1974, 1986
10 13 Advertising 1975-1976
10 14 American Committee on US-Soviet Relations undated, 1974
10 15 Brussels Conference 1971
10 16 Jewish National Fund 1971
Box Folder Title Date
11 1 Legal Advocacy undated, 1977, 1980, 1982-1984
11 2 Legal Advocacy 1976, 1985-1986
11 3 Mailing to USSR undated, 1978, 1980, 1982-1983
11 4 Mailing to USSR undated, 1983, 1985
11 5 Mailing to USSR undated, 1980, 1982-1983, 1985
11 6 Moscow Symposium on Jewish Culture, December 1976 1976
11 7 Natasha's Dream: Children's Handbook on Russian Jews 1974-1979
11 8 Natasha's Dream: Children's Handbook on Russian Jews 1980-1990
Box Folder Title Date
12 1 Olympics 1980 undated, 1973-1978
12 2 Olympics 1980 undated, 1976-1977
12 3 Pepsi Boycott undated, 1971-1974
12 4 Rallies, Petitions, and Demonstrations undated, 1970-1972, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983-1984
12 5 Soviet Jewry Advocacy Groups undated, 1972-1974, 1978-1979, 1989
12 6 Soviet Jewry from Historical Perspective undated, 1972, 1974, 1978-1979, 1982-1986
12 7 Soviet Jewry School Kit undated
12 8 Soviet Political Cartoons undated, 1985-1986
12 9 Story of Soviet Jews: A Guidebook for Children, The 1974
12 10 Telephone Calls to USSR undated
12 11 Tutorial publications undated
12 12 Tutorial publications undated
Box Folder Title Date
13 1 Writing to USSR undated, 1975-1978
13 2 Writing to USSR undated, 1975-1978
13 3 Writing to USSR undated, 1975-1978
13 4 Writing to USSR undated, 1967, 1975-1978
13 5 Writing to USSR undated, 1976-1978
    (contains Hebrew and Russian)   
13 6 Writing to USSR undated, 1978, 1983-1985, 1987
13 7 Writing to USSR undated, 1987-1988
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Series VIII: Other Soviet Jewry Organizations, 1967, 1970-1972, 1976-1979, 1985-1986, 1988-1989.
This series is in English, Hebrew and Russian.
4 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series VIII contains information on Soviet Jewry Movement organizations other than the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry.
Box Folder Title Date
13 8 Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry undated, 1985, 1988-1989
13 9 Jewish Defense League undated, 1967, 1970-1972
13 10 Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry undated, 1977-1979
13 11 Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry undated, 1971-1972, 1976-1979, 1986, 1988-1989
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Series IX: Publications, undated, 1965-1966, 1970-1994.
This series is in English, Hebrew and Russian.
77 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series IX contains magazines, newsletters, manuscripts and books presenting legal, statistical and general information on Soviet Jewry, Antisemitism and broader background information on the Soviet Union.
Box Folder Title Date
14 1 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] 1975
14 2 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] 1977
14 3 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [1 of 3] 1978
14 4 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [2 of 3] 1978
14 5 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [3 of 3] 1978
14 6 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [1 of 2] 1979
14 7 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [2 of 2] 1979
14 8 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [1 of 2] 1980
14 9 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [2 of 2] 1980
Box Folder Title Date
15 1 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [1 of 2] 1981
15 2 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [2 of 2] 1981
15 3 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [1 of 2] 1982
15 4 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] [2 of 2] 1982
15 5 Alert [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] 1983
15 6 American Jewish Response to the Crisis of Soviet Jewry, The, Manuscript by Paul S. Applebaum undated
15 7 Assessment of Soviet Compliance with the Vienna Concluding Document [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] 1991
15 8 Black Book: Documents the Nazis' Destruction of 1.5 Million Soviet Jews, Supressed by Stalin, The, ed by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman [Holocaust Library, New York, NY] 1981
15 9 Case Histories of Refuseniks [South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry] 1977
15 10 Case Histories of Refuseniks [South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry], Volume V 1978
Box Folder Title Date
16 1 Case Histories of Refuseniks [South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry], Volume VI 1979
16 2 Case Histories of Refuseniks [South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry], Volume VII 1981
16 3 Case Histories of Refuseniks [South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry], Volume IX 1982
16 4 Case Histories of Refuseniks [South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry], Volume X 1983
16 5 Case Histories of Refuseniks [South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry], Volume XI 1984
16 6 Collection of Case Histories, A, [South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry] 1976-1977
Box Folder Title Date
17 1 Comite Des Quinez 1981
    (contains French)   
17 2 Comparison of Judicial Control of Freedom of Expression by Dissidents in the United States and the USSR, Manuscript by Oscar I. Dodek Jr. undated
17 3 Critical Insight into Israel's Dilemmas, A, [Washington University, Clayton MO] 1971
17 4 Exodus [Soviet Jewry Action Group, San Francisco, CA] 1971-1972, 1974, 1977
17 5 Exodus [The Institute of Jewish Affairs, London, UK], Volume 7, Number 1, 1977 1977
17 6 First Guidebook to the USSR, The, by Avraham Shifrin [Stephanus Edition, Switzerland] 1980
17 7 Glasnost [The Center for Democracy in USSR, New York, NY] 1987-1989 (with gaps)
17 8 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research Papers 1984, 1986-1987
17 9 Hebrew University of Jerusalem--Jews and Jewish Topics in Soviet and East-European Publications 1985
17 10 Helsinki Process and East-West Relations: Progress in Prospective, The, [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Washington, D.C.] 1985
Box Folder Title Date
18 1 Insight: Soviet Jews [European Jewish Publications Ltd., London, UK] 1978-1979
18 2 Jews in Eastern Europe: A Periodical Survey of Events [European Jewish Publications Ltd., London, UK] 1967, 1970, 1972
18 3 Let My People Go, by Richard Cohen [Popular Library, New York, NY] 1971
18 4 Message from Moscow [Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, New York, NY, Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry, Waltham, MA], Volumes 2-5 1978-1982
18 5 Minority Rights: Problems, Parameters, and Patterns in the CSCE Context [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Washington, D.C.] 1991
18 6 Monitor [Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry] 1990-1992, 1994
18 7 National Geographic [National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.], February 1992 and March 1993 1992-1993
18 8 News and Views from the USSR [Soviet Embassy Information Department] undated, 1972
18 9 News Bulletin on Soviet Jewry [Action Committee of Newcommers From Soviet Union] 1971-1972
Box Folder Title Date
19 1 Newsweek [Newsweek Inc.], July 1978 1978
19 2 Our Ida Nudel: Testimonies of Former Prisoners and Refuseniks [Israel Women for Ida Nudel, Tel Aviv, Israel] 1980
19 3 Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR [Working Group on the Internment of Dissenters in Mental Hospitals] 1977
19 4 Portraits of Infamy by Rabbi Abraham Cooper [Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA] 1987
19 5 POTMA, Repression of Jews in USSR [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews] 1971
19 6 Publications on Soviet Jewry undated, 1970-1973, 1977, 1980, 1987, 1989
19 7 Publications on Soviet Jewry undated, 1971-1972, 1976, 1982
19 8 Publications, Miscellaneous 1965-1966, 1969-1970, 1972
19 9 Publications, Miscellaneous 1970, 1972, 1975, 1979
Box Folder Title Date
20 1 Publications, Miscellaneous 1974-1977
20 2 Publications, Miscellaneous 1978-1980, 1987
20 3 Publications, Miscellaneous undated, 1978-1981, 1987
20 4 Record - The Jews of Russia: A Question of Human Rights, The, [The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith] 1980
20 5 Refusenik Update, [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Washington, D.C.] 1985
20 6 Refusenik Update, [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Washington, D.C.] 1986
20 7 Refusenik Update, [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Washington, D.C.] 1988
20 8 Refusenik Update, [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Washington, D.C.] 1989
20 9 Refusenik Update, [Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Washington, D.C.] 1990
Box Folder Title Date
21 1 Samizdat Bulletin, The, [The Samizdat Bulletin, San Mateo, CA] 1975
21 2 Soviet Jewish Affairs: A Journal on Jewish Problems in the USSR and Eastern Europe [Narod Press Ltd., London, UK] 1972
21 3 Soviet Union and the Middle East: A Monthly Summary and News Analysis of the Soviet and East European Press, The, [The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel] [1 of 3] 1985-1987
21 4 Soviet Union and the Middle East: A Monthly Summary and News Analysis of the Soviet and East European Press, The, [The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel] [2 of 3] 1987-1988
21 5 Soviet Union and the Middle East: A Monthly Summary and News Analysis of the Soviet and East European Press, The [The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel] [3 of 3] 1988-1989
21 6 Time Magazine [Time Inc., Chicago, IL] 1977-1978
21 7 Undercover Jewish News Out of the USSR [Soviet Jewry Committee of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington] 1971-1973
21 8 Updates on Soviet Law [Union of Councils on Soviet Jews, Washington, D.C.] 1984
21 9 US-USSR Economic Relations and Soviet Immigration Policy [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] 1975
21 10 Vigil, The, [Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Arlington, VA] 1973-1976
21 11 Vigil, The, [Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Arlington, VA] 1977-1978
21 12 Vigil, The, [Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Arlington, VA] 1979-1982, 1987
Box Folder Title Date
22 1 Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry Newsletter [Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Washington, D.C.] undated, 1972
22 2 Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Publications of undated, 1971-1974, 1976-1978
22 3 Witness, The [Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Arlington, VA] 1971-1972
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Series X: Photos, Slides, Audio, Video and Oversize Materials, 3-D Objects, undated, 1969, 1971, 1973-1990.
This series is in English and Russian.
33 folders.
Arrangement:

Alphabetical.
Scope and Content:

Series X includes audio and video recordings, photographs, slides, posters and 3D objects.

Subseries A: Photos and Slides, undated, 1969, 1971, 1973-1985, 1987-1988.
This subseries is in English.
33 folders.
Box Folder Title Date
22 4 Photographs: 3rd Anniversary of Scharansky Arrest Vigil, March 14, 1980 1980
22 5 Photographs: 5th Anniversary of Scharansky Arrest Vigil, March 15, 1982 1982
22 6 Photographs: Anna's Hope: WCSJ Benefit Concert, October 3, 1985 1985
22 7 Photographs: Avital Scharansky and Hebrew Academy Purim undated, 1978-1980, 1983
22 8 Photographs: Beit Hamedresh of Moscow undated
22 9 Photographs: Brussels II Photo Gallery undated
22 10 Photographs: Chanukah Freedom Lights Vigil 1981
22 11 Photographs: Children's Day undated
22 12 Photographs: Concert at WMC and Boris Vaineryman undated, 1980
22 13 Photographs: International League for the Repatriation of Russian Jews, The 1975
22 14 Photographs: Jewish Cemetery Headstones undated, 1895-1940
22 15 Photographs: Jews of Uzbekistan undated
22 16 Photographs: Kennedy Center Bolshoi Opening, WCSJ Demo July 21, 1987
22 17 Photographs: Scharansky's 34th Birthday Vigil undated
22 18 Photographs: Shabbat Services at Synagogue, Rostov-on-Don, USSR undated
22 19 Photographs: Slepak Vigil, June 2, 1980 1980
22 20 Photographs: Soviet Jewish Refuseniks undated
22 21 Photographs: Spring Conference undated
22 22 Photographs: Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry Washington Briefing, January 14, 1977 1977
22 23 Photographs: Various Synagogues, Lev Shapiro and Children undated, 1984
22 24 Photographs: Vladimir and Maria Slepak, Chita - Siberian Exile 1981
22 25 Photographs: WCSJ Chanukah Vigil undated
22 26 Photographs: WCSJ Fabrengen Feddlers Concert, March 8, 1980 1980
Box Folder Title Date
23 1 Photographs: Miscellaneous undated, 1969, 1971, 1973-1978, 1980-1982, 1984-1985, 1987-1988
23 2 Photographs: Miscellaneous undated, 1972, 1974-1978
23 3 Photographs: Miscellaneous undated, 1974, 1976, 1978
23 4 Photographs: Miscellaneous undated, 1974-1978, 1982, 1984-1985
23 5 Photographs: Miscellaneous undated, 1975, 1978-1979, 1983
23 6 Photographs: Miscellaneous undated, 1978, 1987
23 7 Photographs: Miscellaneous undated, 1980, 1983, 1985
23 8 Photographs: Miscellaneous, Negatives undated
23 9 Slides: Ruth Newman undated
23 10 Slides: "A Children's Tale," 15 Minute Slide Show by Soviet Jewry Information Centre 1984
23 11 Slides: "Refuseniks--Heroes of History," Slide Show by Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry undated

Subseries B: 3-D Objects, undated.
1 box.
Box Folder Title Date
24 1 Two (2) Metal Bracelets Stamped with Names of Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience and Dates of Their Imprisonment: Anatoly Sharansky, Ida Nudel. Two (2) Prisoner of Conscience Kits: Information Cards and Star of David-Shaped Medallions Stamped with names of Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience: Sylva Zalmanson and Lassal Kaminsky undated

Subseries C: Audio Materials, undated, 1975-1986.
This subseries is in English and Russian.
2 folders.
Box Folder Title Date
25 1 Compact Cassette, Today Show: April 13, 1977 1977
25 2 Compact Cassette, WAMU-FM Fred Fiske Show with John Wallach, 10th Anniversary of Helsinki Accords, July 23, 1985 (Part 1) 1985
25 3 Compact Cassette, WAMU-FM 10th Anniversary of Helsinki Accords Broadcast, July 23, 1985 (Part 2) 1985
25 4 Compact Cassette, WAMU-FM 10th Anniversary of Helsinki Accords Broadcast, July 23, 1985 (Part 3) 1985
25 5 Compact Cassette, Brussells II: February 1976 1976
25 6 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Demo, 4th Anniversary Scharansky arrest: March 16, 1981 1981
25 7 Compact Cassette, Anna Rosnovski - Washington Hebrew Congregation, October 4, 1985 1985
25 8 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Vigil: 5th Anniversary of Scharansky's Arrest, 1982 1982
25 9 Compact Cassette, UCSJ Conference: Misha Eidelman and UCSJ/WCSJ Drinan Tribute: April 7-8, 1980 1980
25 10 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Concert: Anna Rosnovski, Soloist, October 3, 1985 1985
25 11 Compact Cassette, Internatonal Sakharov Hearing and Irwin Cotler-Scharansky Case: September 1979 1979
25 12 Compact Cassette, No. Va. Day Camp Call to Moscow undated
25 13 Compact Cassette, The United States Committee to Free Vladimir Slepak, February 28, 1987 1987
25 14 Compact Cassette, Lev Roitburd at Tifereth Israel Conference and Lev Roitburd at Bnai Israel, April 23 and 24, 1981 1981
25 15 Compact Cassette, Call to Soviet Union from home of Burton undated
25 16 Compact Cassette, M. Sherbourne with Report on Scharansky Trial, July 1978 1978
25 17 Compact Cassette, Professor Martin Gilbert at UCSJ Annual Meeting, October 21, 1985 1985
25 18 Compact Cassette, Yuli Kasharovsky, Leonid Reingold, Vladimir Raiz, May 31, 1988 1988
25 19 Compact Cassette, Concert: 10th Anniversary of Helsinki Accords, July 31, 1985 1985
25 20 Compact Cassette, Slepak News Conference, March 27, 1987 1987
25 21 Compact Cassette, A. Rish, April 1976 1976
25 22 Compact Cassette, WNTR, Ed Graham Show: Rabbis Oler, Kahn and Fink and R. Newman, June 6, 1985 1985
25 23 Compact Cassette, WNTR, Washington Live, April 16, 1987 1987
25 24 Compact Cassette, Jack Minker and Dr. Alexander Lerner Phone Call, September 27, 1984 1984
25 25 Compact Cassette, Lea Slovin at Washington Hebrew, December 2, 1971 1971
25 26 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Concert-Fabrangen Fiddlers, March 8, 1980 (Part 1) 1980
25 27 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Concert-Fabrangen Fiddlers, March 8, 1980 (Part 2) 1980
25 28 Compact Cassette, Slepak Interview, Passover Service and Christmas Smuggling of Bibles into East Europe undated
25 29 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Recap and Cong. Briefing, Dimtri Sinods and Irina Grivnina, February 4, 1987 1987
25 30 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Chanukah Freedom Lights Vigil, December 20, 1981 1981
25 31 Compact Cassette, Dr. Jack Minker's Call to Prof. Alexander Lerner on Lerner's 70th Birthday, September 7, 1983 and Conversation with Professor Lerner, June-July 1978 1978
25 32 Compact Cassette, Scharansky Birthday Vigil and Demo WCSJ, January 20, 1979 1979
25 33 Compact Cassette, Shirley Goldstein - Slepak (Volodya), Stolar, Scharansky, Kornfelds and Case Histories 1975
25 34 Compact Cassette, On Tape Counter Stolar (134-153), Scharansky (166-244), September 1975 1975
25 35 Compact Cassette, Jews in American Society, Side 4 undated
25 36 Compact Cassette, Dopthehskel and Kadep undated
25 37 Compact Cassette, Ruth Newman, WAMU-FM Interview Regarding Daily Vigil With Karen Kalish, August 1984 1984
25 38 Compact Cassette, Moscow Concert undated
25 39 Compact Cassette, Moscow Concert undated
25 40 Compact Cassette, Liberman, M. Slepak, Rabinov: Translation undated
25 41 Compact Cassette, Interview--WRC-TV with Arena Stagers, Alan Schneider, Howard Witt, Dianne Wiest, June 9, 1974 1974
25 42 Compact Cassette, W W D. Dinner undated
25 43 Compact Cassette, Vigil for Ida Nudel's 51st birthday at Soviet Embassy, April 26, 1982 1982
25 44 Compact Cassette, "Children's Tale," Soundtrack for the Slide Show by Soviet Jewry Information Center 1984
25 45 Compact Cassette, U. Nepthuhcuers undated
25 46 Compact Cassette, "Refuseniks--Heroes of History," Soundtrack for the Slide Show by Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry undated
25 47 Compact Cassette, "Children's Tale," Soundtrack for the Slide Show by Soviet Jewry Information Center 1984
25 48 Compact Cassette, "Children's Tale," Soundtrack for the Slide Show by Soviet Jewry Information Center 1984
25 49 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Parlor Meeting--Lev Ulanovsky, Judy Slovin, Jim Glenn, Martin Gilbert: October 18, 1983 1983
25 50 Compact Cassette, Michael Sherbourne Radio Interview and Joan Kirstein, October 28, 1979 1979
25 51 Compact Cassette, WCSJ Vigil: Sharansky's 30th birthday, Avital Sharansky, Cong. Millicent Fenwick (R-NJ), Cong. Newton Steers (R-MD), January 20, 1978 1978
25 52 Compact Cassette, Anna Rosnovski Story, Reported by Peter Maer: September 4, 1986 1986
25 53 Compact Cassette, Michael Sherbourne Radio Interview and Joan Kirstein, October 28, 1979 1979
25 54 Compact Cassette, Vigil Int'l Children's Day: Hebrew Academy Choir and Sasha Fish, June 1, 1978 1978
25 55 Compact Cassette, Scharansky's Birthday Vigil, January 22, 1981 1981
25 56 Compact Cassette, Demo for Slepaks, WCSJ/Med Mabe, June 2, 1980; Sinyavsky on Soviet Antisemitism, September 1979 1979
25 57 Compact Cassette, Vigil: 2nd Anniversary of Sharansky Trial, July 14, 1980; WCSJ/UCSJ Tribute to Cong. Rob F Drinan, Floor of House of Representatives, September 8, 1980 1980
25 58 Compact Cassette, SSSJ Interview With Michael Goldberg, Eyewitness to Col. Yefim Davidovich's Death in Minsk, April 24, 1976 1976
25 59 Compact Cassette, "Refuseniks--Heroes of History," Soundtrack for the Slide Show by Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry undated

Subseries D: Photos and Slides, undated, 1989-1990.
This subseries is in English.
2 folders.
Box Folder Title Date
26 1 Beta Video Cassette, Hirelings and Accomplices undated
26 2 Beta Video Cassette, Hirelings and Accomplices undated
26 3 Beta Video Cassette, Ruth Newman undated
26 4 Video Cassette, Yelistratous undated
26 5 Video Cassette, Kiev Passover 1990
26 6 Video Cassette, Refuseniks: Who and Why? / Free At Last: Interviews in Jersusalem With Semyon Yantovsky and Erlina Matlina; Mikhail Elbert; Mikhail and Irina Kara-Ivanov; Marina Kltrosky; Mikhail Kholmyansky; Yuri Stern undated
26 7 Video Cassette, Refusenik Pisaravsky, Leningrad, April 1990 1990
26 8 Video Cassette, Soviet Refuseniks with S. Weiswasser, 511 Linnean Ave. NW Wash. DC, 20008 (202) 363-7156 undated
26 9 Video Cassette, Refuseniks Lev and Lea Milman, Moscow undated
26 10 Video Cassette, Production Tape, "The Jews of Moscow," Theodore Bikel undated
26 11 Video Cassette, World Monitor A and E, "The New Nazis" (30 mins.) / Pangat and Antisemetism in USSR, December 20, 1990 1990
26 12 Video Cassette, Perm 35 Video, 85 Minutes, August 1989 1989

Subseries E: Oversize Materials, undated, 1980, 1982, 1986-1987.
This subseries is in English and Russian.
1 MAP folder.
Box Folder Title Date
MAP1 1 "Free Iosif Begun" poster, undated, 21"x33", 3 copies, color undated
MAP1 1 "I Am a Citizen of the USSR: Soviet Passport," Soviet Propaganda Poster, E. Kazhdan, 17"x26", 1 copy, color 1980
    (in Russian)   
MAP1 1 1 Photo, Irkuts, World War II Memorial, 19"x26", color undated
MAP1 1 3 Photos, Passover in USSR, 11"x14", b/w undated
MAP1 1 Soviet Life Magazine, September 1986 1986
MAP1 1 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Special Report: USSR, A Second Revolution? 1987
MAP1 1 "Zionism is Today's Fascism," Soviet Anti-Zionist Propaganda Poster, A. Ordinartsev, 19"x26", 1 copy, color 1982
    (in Russian)   
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