American Jewish Historical Society finding aid for the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry records

Archive

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Soviet Jewry Movement Archives Project

Name/Title

American Jewish Historical Society finding aid for the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry records

Entry/Object ID

SJ-702

Scope and Content

The collection reflects the activities of Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry (after 1991 known as Chicago Action for Jews in the Former Soviet Union) from the time of its inception in the early 1970s until its closing in May 2010. Particularly voluminous are the documents of CASJ’s major programs—International Physicians Commission and Yad L’Yad. The collection contains extensive information on the Refuseniks, those Jews who were denied permission to emigrate from the USSR and often persecuted by the Soviet authorities for requesting such permission. Also included are reports of the individuals, mainly from the Chicago area, who traveled to the USSR to meet with Soviet Jews to offer them moral, spiritual and material support. The collection includes a large body of documents pertaining to the activities of the national organization Union of Councils for Soviet Jews in which CASJ was a council, and whose national president, Pamela Cohen also co-chaired CASJ. The collection features materials documenting the work of the Soviet Jewty Legal Advocacy Center, the legal arm of UCSJ in which CASJ also participated. The collection contains several thousand photographs, hundreds of audio and video tapes, a collection of posters and commemorative pins and bracelets, all pertaining to the Soviet Jewry movement.

Collection

Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry records

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Audiocassettes, Case files, Commemorative jewelry, Correspondence, Memorandums, Newsletters, Pamphlets, Photographs, Posters, Press releases, Reports, Slides (photographs), Videocassettes

Archive Details

Creator

Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry

Date(s) of Creation

1961 - 2010

Archive Size/Extent

178 linear feet

Primary Language

English, Russian

Archive Items Details

Subjects

Former Soviet republics, Soviet Union, Jews, Soviet, Political activists, Antisemitism, Refuseniks, Refugees, Political prisoners, International law, Human rights, Emigration & immigration, Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago, Travel, Tourism

Location

* Untyped Location

American Jewish Historical Society

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Nudel, Ida, Brailovsky, Victor, Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989, Shcharansky, Anatoly, Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947, American Bar Association, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center., International Physicians Commission, Cohen, Pamela Braun, 1943-

Web Links and URLs

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/6003

Copyright

Notes

Information concerning the literary rights may be obtained from the Executive Director 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, NY, 10011 email:info@ajhs.org