British activists interview

Archive

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Soviet Jewry Movement Archives Project

Name/Title

British activists interview

Entry/Object ID

SJ-1404

Scope and Content

Group interview with Sylvia Wallis, Sylvia Becker, and Andrew & Jean Balcombe. Recorded in Jerusalem, Israel. Wallis was a founding member of the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry (known as the 35's) in Britain. Becker was a member of the 35's; edited a newsletter with ideas for action on Soviet Jewry; travelled Britain speaking and helping to organize Soviet Jewry groups; accompanied Avital Sharansky and others to Soviet Jewry groups; and travelled twice to vist refuseniks in Moscow. The Balcombes visited refuseniks in Moscow twice, in 1978 and 1979. Jean was an activist with National Council for Soviet Jewry and with Conscience (the Inter-denominational Committee for Soviet Jewry). Andrew was a member of the World Presidium for Soviet Jewry, chairperson of National Council for Soviet Jewry, and activist with Conscience.

Collection

Soviet Jewry Movement Oral History Project

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Oral histories

Archive Details

Creator

Wallis, Sylvia, Becker, Sylvia, Balcombe, Andrew, 1942, Balcombe, Jean, 1944-

Date(s) of Creation

Jun 2, 2015

Archive Size/Extent

1 hr. 45 min.

Primary Language

English

Archive Items Details

Subjects

Jews, Soviet, Antisemitism, Emigration & immigration, Refuseniks, Jews -- Persecutions, Jews--England

Location

* Untyped Location

Yeshiva University Archives (New York, N.Y.)

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Richter, Glenn, Wallis, Sylvia, Becker, Sylvia, Balcombe, Andrew, 1942, Balcombe, Jean, 1944-, Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry, National Council for Soviet Jewry of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Conscience, the Interdenominational Committee for Soviet Jewry, World Presidium for Soviet Jewry

Web Links and URLs

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Copyright

Copyright Details

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