American Jewish Historical Society finding aid for the records of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal

Archive

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Soviet Jewry Movement Archives Project

Name/Title

American Jewish Historical Society finding aid for the records of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal

Entry/Object ID

SJ-960

Scope and Content

The records document the founding, development, operations, campaigns, and activities of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews (BACSJ) and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal (BACJRR) on behalf of Soviet Jewry and Jews in the Former Soviet States. While pertaining to the activities of the BACSJ, the materials also contain considerable documentation on Soviet repressive policies regarding freedom of emigration and religion for Soviet Jewry. In addition, the materials provide insight into the Soviet Jewry movement as a whole, which involved numerous domestic and foreign organizations that forced the issue onto the international stage. Part 1 of the collection contains the records of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews from its inception in 1967 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The bulk of Part 1 dates in the 1970s. Part 2 of the collection represents the records of the Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal, a post-Soviet incarnation of BACSJ that operated through the 1990s. BACSJRR evidently largely continued using the files generated by BACSJ before the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, thus the bulk of Part 2 dates in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Collection

Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM)

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Correspondence, Clippings, Photographs, Audiotapes, Audiocassettes, Banners, Case files, Commemorative jewelry, Filmstrips, Flags, Legal documents, Memorandums, Newsletters, Pamphlets, Phonograph records, Posters, Press releases, Reports, Slides (photographs), Sweatshirts, T-shirts, Transcripts, Videocassettes

Archive Details

Creator

Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal

Date(s) of Creation

1952 - 1999

Archive Size/Extent

320.9 Linear Feet

Primary Language

English, Russian, Hebrew

Archive Items Details

Subjects

Jews, Soviet, Refuseniks, Emigration & immigration, Antisemitism, Human rights, Political activists, Political prisoners, Travel, Jews -- California -- San Francisco, Former Soviet republics, Bar mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, Civil rights demonstrations, Détente, International law, Psychological abuse, Refugees

Location

* Untyped Location

American Jewish Historical Society

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal, Agnos, Art, Andropov, I︠U︡. V. (I︠U︡riĭ Vladimirovich), 1914-1984, Baez, Joan, Boxer, Barbara, Bronfman, Edgar M., 1929-2013, Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017, Bukovskiĭ, Vladimir Konstantinovich, 1942-, Bush, George, 1924-2018, Chernenko, K. U. (Konstantin Ustinovich), 1911-1985, Clinton, Bill, 1946-, Franky, Rusty E., Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022, Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015, King, Martin Luther, Sr., 1899-1984, Kissinger, Henry, 1923-, Nudel, Ida, Reagan, Ronald, Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989, Shcharansky, Anatoly, Shultz, George P., 1920-2021, Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947, Zhirinovskiĭ, Vladimir, 1946-, American Bar Association, Amnesty International, Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, Jewish Community Relations Council (San Francisco, Calif.), National Conference on Soviet Jewry (U.S.), American Jewish Congress, B'nai B'rith International, Schapira, Morey, Light, Harold B.

Web Links and URLs

https://archives.cjh.org//repositories/3/resources/283

Copyright

Notes

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