Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry
Organization
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
Clippings - pre 1971, 1968-1970
File
Identifier: B093.01.0003.0008
Abstract
Clippings from newspapers regarding Soviet Jewry, pre 1971.
Dates:
1968-1970
Clippings - The Jewish Press, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0003.0007
Abstract
Clippings from the Jewish Press.
Dates:
1968-1978
Clippings - undated, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0003.0019
Abstract
Clippings from newspapers regarding Soviet Jewry, undated.
Dates:
1968-1978
Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0005.0032
Abstract
Various materials of the Colorado Committee of Soviet Jewry.
Dates:
1968-1978
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
Committee - General, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0005.0029
Abstract
Materials from the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry.
Dates:
1968-1978
Correspondence - undated, 1968-1978
File
Identifier: B093.01.0005.0028
Abstract
Correspondence of the Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry.
Dates:
1968-1978
''Fast for Freedom'', 1970
File
Identifier: B093.01.0002.0012
Abstract
Materials related to the "Fast for Freedom." The first protest of the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry was in 1970 when 33 members of the Colorado group carried out a three-day fast on the steps of the state capitol to commemorate the Night of the Murdered Poets. The Colorado Committee was the first to commemorate this event and continued the protest annually. The Night of the Murdered Poets was the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Russian...
Dates:
1970
''Fast for Freedom'' Correspondence, 1970
File
Identifier: B093.01.0002.0014
Abstract
Correspondence related to "Fast for Freedom" which occurred in Denver, Colorado. The first protest of the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry was in 1970 when 33 members of the Colorado group carried out a three-day fast on the steps of the state capitol to commemorate the Night of the Murdered Poets. The Colorado Committee was the first to commemorate this event and continued the protest annually. The Night of the Murdered Poets was the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the...
Dates:
1970
General Correspondence, 1969-1973
File
Identifier: B093.01.0005.0027
Abstract
General Correspondence of the Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry.
Dates:
1969-1973
Filtered By
- Subject: Protest and social movements X
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- Type
- Archival Object 67
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Jews, Soviet 66
- Refuseniks 54
- Denver (Colo.) 44
- Political prisoners 19
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 17
- Nonprofit organizations 9
- Soviet Union 7
- Jews 5
- Correspondence 4
- Newsletters 4
- Notes (Documents) 4
- New York (N.Y.) 3
- Committees 2
- Jews, British 2
- San Francisco (Calif.) 2
- Student protesters 2
- Articles on news media 1
- Bills, Legislative 1
- Conferences 1
- Great Britain 1
- Hijacking of aircraft 1
- Israel 1
- Jewish women 1
- Jews -- Colorado -- Charities 1
- Jews -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States 1
- Metal buttons 1
- Odesa (Ukraine) 1
- Photographs 1
- Publications 1
- Publicity 1
- Rīga (Latvia) 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Student protesters -- Colorado -- Denver 1 + ∧ less
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