Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry
Organization
Found in 164 Collections and/or Records:
Records, 1968-1978
Series
Identifier: B093.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Most of the records consist of letters, educational materials, bulletins and published newspaper accounts of activities by world-wide, national and local groups on behalf of Soviet Jews. Rhoda Friedman collected most of this material. The Records also have scrapbooks about Lillian Hoffman.
Dates:
1968-1978
Red Cross, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0017
Abstract
Materials related to the Red Cross regarding Soviet Jewry.
Dates:
1968-1978
Research Institute on Soviet Jewry, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0018
Abstract
Materials related to the Research Institute on Soviet Jewry.
Dates:
1968-1978
Russian Magazines, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0013
Abstract
Various Russian magazines, including "Soviet Life." In October 1956, the Soviet and US Governments agreed to allow each other to publish a magazine in their own nation, but limited circulation to 30,000 copies per issue. The Soviet Government published Soviet Life in English, while the US Government published Amerika in Russian. Soviet Life was generally not a political magazine, in the sense that it rarely delved into the political issues of the day, nor did it talk about political theory,...
Dates:
1968-1978
Scrapbooks, 1929-1996
Series
Identifier: B093.02
Scope and Contents
Contains material from scrapbooks of the CCCSJ and Babi Yar Park.
Dates:
1929-1996
Senator Henry Jackson, 1972-1975
File
Identifier: B093.01.0005.0015
Abstract
Miscellaneous material dealing with Senator Henry Jackson's activities on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Henry M. Jackson was a senator from Washington for 30 years. One of his accomplishments was the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the 1974 Trade Act that made trade between the United States and the Soviet Union conditioned upon Soviets relaxing restrictions on Jewish emigration. Members of the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry pushed for the Amendment to prevent the Soviet Union from...
Dates:
1972-1975
Shapiros, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0034
Abstract
Materials related to the Shapiros.
Dates:
1968-1978
Sister Ann Gillen of Chicago - Interreligious Task Force on Soviet Jewry, 1971-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0002.0013
Abstract
Materials related to Sister Ann Gillen of Chicago, executive director of the National Interrelgious Task Force on Soviet Jewry from 1972 to 1987. Sister Ann Gillen was a nun who brought the plight of Jews trapped in the Soviet Union to the attention of the Christian world. and made their cause her own
Dates:
1971-1978
Slides, button, etc., 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0019
Abstract
Various materials (slides, buttons, notes) related to Soviet Jewry.
Dates:
1968-1978
Soviet Jewish Dissident Protest, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0004.0023
Abstract
Newspaper clippings related to the Soviet Jewish Dissident Protest.
Dates:
1968-1978
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 162
- Collection 2
- Subject
- Jews, Soviet 152
- Refuseniks 110
- Denver (Colo.) 109
- Protest and social movements 68
- Nonprofit organizations 35
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 32
- Soviet Union 29
- Political prisoners 26
- Jews 23
- Newsletters 15
- Publications 14
- Committees 11
- Correspondence 11
- Israel 6
- Minnesota 6
- San Francisco (Calif.) 6
- Colorado 5
- Jews, British 5
- Notes (Documents) 5
- Photographs 5
- Scrapbooks 5
- Assimilation (Sociology) 4
- Great Britain 4
- Jewish women 4
- United States 4
- Anti-Semitism 3
- Bills, Legislative 3
- Conferences 3
- Emigration and immigration 3
- Jewish newspapers 3
- New York (N.Y.) 3
- Publishers and publishing 3
- Speeches (Documents) 3
- Antisemitism 2
- Babi Yar Park (Denver, Colo.) 2
- Catholic women 2
- Jerusalem 2
- London (England) 2
- Publicity 2
- Russians 2
- Student protesters 2
- Washington (D.C.) 2
- Art, Russian 1
- Articles on news media 1
- Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941 1
- Ballet 1
- Biography 1
- Books 1
- Broadsides 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Cities and towns 1
- Cleveland (Ohio) 1
- Colorado -- Politics and government -- 1951- 1
- Communism 1
- Detroit (Mich.) 1
- Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) 1
- Diplomatic and consular service, Russian 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Fraternal organizations 1
- Grocers 1
- Hebrew language 1
- Hijacking of aircraft 1
- Human rights 1
- Immigrants 1
- International Trade 1
- Jewish chronicle (London, England : 1845) 1
- Jewish men 1
- Jewish students 1
- Jewish women -- Colorado 1
- Jews -- Colorado -- Charities 1
- Jews -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States 1
- Journals (Periodicals) 1
- Liquor Stores 1
- Memorandums 1
- Metal buttons 1
- Motion pictures, Russian 1
- New Mexico 1
- Novosibirsk (Russia) 1
- Odesa (Ukraine) 1
- Oral histories 1
- Periodicals 1
- Poets, Russian 1
- Reform Judaism 1
- Religious discrimination 1
- Research institutes 1
- Rīga (Latvia) 1
- Russia 1
- Scientists 1
- Social advocacy -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Student protesters -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Treaties 1
- Wyoming 1
- Zionism 1 + ∧ less
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