Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records
Collection
Identifier: B093
Abstract
Soviet Jews who wanted to emigrate from the Soviet Union were known as "Refuseniks." American Jewish students formed the Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) in 1964 and the American Jewish Committee on Soviet Jewry (AJCSI) was also organized that year. Rabbi Samuel Adelman, rabbi of the BMH synagogue, spoke at Temple Emanuel and urged the liberal congregation to help Soviet Jews. Rabbi Raymond Zwerin, Sheldon Steinhauser, and Lillian Hoffman formed what became the Colorado Committee of Concern...
Dates:
1929-1996; Majority of material found within 1968-1978
POC/ Azbel, David, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0026
Abstract
Fact sheet and materials related to David Azbel who was a Jewish dissident and political prisoner in the Soviet Union.
Dates:
1968-1978
POC/ Beilina, Dina, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0027
Abstract
Fact sheet and materials related to Dina Beilina, a Jewish Soviet disident imprissoned by the Soviet Union. In 1978, after seven years, Dina Beilina, considered the USSR’s leading woman Jewish refusnik, received an exit visa to Israel.
Dates:
1968-1978
POC/ Davidovich, Ephim, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0028
Abstract
Fact sheet and materials related to Ephim Davidovich, a Jewish prisoner of conscience.
Dates:
1968-1978
POC/Tiemkin, Marina, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0035
Abstract
Materials related to prisoner of conscience Mariana Tiemkin.
Dates:
1968-1978