Name/Title
American Jewish Historical Society finding aid for the David Waksberg papersEntry/Object ID
SJ-945Scope and Content
The David Waksberg Papers most substantially reflect Waksberg’s work for BACSJ, UCSJ and CJR in the late 1980s and early 1990s on behalf of Soviet Jews. The collection documents the BACSJ’s, UCSJ's and CJR’s activities, goals, reactions to events, and shifts in policy, as well as general topics such as refuseniks, prisoners of conscience, emigration law, anti-Semitism, US-USSR relations and the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.
The papers are of a purely professional nature, not related to Waksberg’s personal life aside from items about his politically staged marriage in 1983 (Box 11, Folder 14). Waksberg interfiled most material generated in connection with his intersecting leadership roles, with the exceptions of separate clusters of materials on the human rights bureaus in Series III and UCSJ fundraising activities in Series IV. Document types consist of correspondence, reports, grant proposals, notes, clippings and photographs.Lexicon
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Correspondence, Memorandums, Newsletters, Photographs, Newspaper clippings, Grants, Reports, SpeechesArchive Details
Creator
Waksberg, DavidDate(s) of Creation
1970 - 1997Archive Size/Extent
9 Linear Feet (18 manuscript boxes)Primary Language
English, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, FrenchArchive Items Details
Subjects
Jews, Soviet, Refuseniks, Emigration & immigration, Antisemitism, Human rights, Political activists, Former Soviet republics, Political prisoners, Refugees, Jews -- California -- San FranciscoLocation
* Untyped Location
American Jewish Historical SocietyRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Shcharansky, Anatoly, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, Center for Jewish Renewal (Philadelphia, Pa.), Russian-American Bureau for Human RightsCopyright
Notes
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