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by Andrey Filimonov
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Freedom Birthday Party for Valery Panov at the Plaza Square, NYC, March 12, 1974—Rally on behalf of a Refusenik leading ballet dancer Valery Panov. Pictured on the photo, left to right: Malcolm Hoenlein, founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry; Jerry Goodman, Director…
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To read the introduction to the series, click here.
The Jewish Labor Bund was a unique and memorable force in European Jewish communal and political history. Established in Vilna in 1897, the General Jewish Labor Bund was originally conceived as…
Carrying Hanukkah gifts to hospitalized servicemen, 1918. American Jewish Historical Society.
“Text on back of photograph: "1918 – Carrying Chanuka gifts to hospitalized servicemen at the Ninth Naval District Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois. Reading from your left to your right: 1. Louis Diamond (deceased), J.W.B. Field Representative at Great Lakes Naval Training Center ; 2. Mrs. Adolph Epstein (deceased), Racine, Wisconsin ; 3. Mrs….