American Jewish Historical Society finding aid for the Morey Schapira papers

Archive

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Soviet Jewry Movement Archives Project

Name/Title

American Jewish Historical Society finding aid for the Morey Schapira papers

Entry/Object ID

SJ-843

Scope and Content

The Morey Schapira Papers cover the years 1963 through 2010 with the bulk dating in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection documents nearly 30 years of Morey Schapira’s involvement in the Soviet Jewry movement, the development and increasing importance of the issues of Soviet Jews worldwide, the relations between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and the collapse of the U.S.S.R. The materials cover activities of many Soviet Jewry organizations. Those groups most strongly represented are Action for Soviet Jewry, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. Many other organizations that are represented include Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry, Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry, National Conference on Soviet Jewry, National Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry, Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center, Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry, Committee of Concerned Scientists and Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky. The collection also contain topical files which did not originate with any specific group, trip reports from visitors to the U.S.S.R., and a very large body of newspaper clippings concerning Soviet Jewry, the Soviet Union and related issues. The documents include correspondence, notes, memoranda, publications, news clippings, photographs, ephemera, and a video recording on CD-ROM.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

CD-ROMS, Correspondence, Photographs, Posters, Handwritten notes, Newsletters, Clippings, Pamphlets, Reports

Archive Details

Creator

Schapira, Morey

Date(s) of Creation

1963 - 2010

Archive Size/Extent

56.27 Linear Feet (112 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize folder)

Primary Language

English, Russian, Spanish, French

Archive Items Details

Subjects

Jews, Soviet, Refuseniks, Emigration & immigration, Antisemitism, Human rights, Jews, Ethiopian, Political activists, Former Soviet republics

Location

* Untyped Location

American Jewish Historical Society

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Dershowitz, Alan M., Drinan, Robert F., Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015, Nudel, Ida, Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989, Shcharansky, Anatoly, American Bar Association, Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, B'nai B'rith International, Committee of Concerned Scientists, Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, National Conference on Soviet Jewry (U.S.), North American Jewish Students' Network, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, United Jewish Appeal, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States. Congress, American Jewish Congress, South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry, United States (Section 402) (Title of work: Trade Act of 1974)

Web Links and URLs

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/3/resources/13252

Copyright

Notes

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