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Protest and social movements

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

POC/ Azbel, David, 1968-1978

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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

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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

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0028
Abstract

Fact sheet and materials related to Ephim Davidovich, a Jewish prisoner of conscience.

Dates: 1968-1978

POC/Zalmanson, Sylva, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0037
Abstract Materials related to Sylva Zalmanson. Sylva Zalmanson graduated Riga Polytechnic University in 1968 and worked as an engineer. Repeatedly requesting and being denied exit visas to leave the Soviet Union for Israel, Zalmanson and her husband Eduard Kuznetsov became members of a group of activists who came up with a plan to escape. The plan was called "Operation Wedding" or the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair. The group of 16 would buy all the tickets to a local flight from a small airport...
Dates: 1968-1978

Project Interference, 1967-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0003.0025
Abstract

Various materials related to Project Interference.

Dates: 1967-1978

Project Yached, 1967-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0003.0026
Abstract

Various materials related to Project Yached. Yached means together, unity.

Dates: 1967-1978

Promotions, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0016
Abstract

Promotions related to Soviet Jewry.

Dates: 1968-1978

Raiza Palatnick, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0029
Abstract

Fact sheet and materials related to Raiza Palatnick, who was a 35 year old Jewish librariian in Odessa, Ukraine who was imprisoned for distributing materials "slanderous" to the Soviet Union. Her confinement in isolation for five months began The 35's or Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry in 1971 in London, England. Raiza Palatnick was released from prison after two years and allowed to immigrate to Israel.

Dates: 1968-1978

Richard Wihera Woodstock West Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: M473
Abstract

Richard Wihera (BA, 1973) was a Mass Communications undergraduate during the Woodstock West protest in 1970 working as a reporter with DUTV, a closed circuit television station for the University of Denver campus run by the Mass Communications department. Wihera had a press pass and this allowed him to take photographs sometimes behind police lines. The collection consists of slides of photographs taken at the University of Denver during the Woostock West protest.

Dates: Other: May 5th-13th 1970

Slides, button, etc., 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0019
Abstract

Various materials (slides, buttons, notes) related to Soviet Jewry.

Dates: 1968-1978