By Andrey Filimonov, Archival Services Manager at
the Center for Jewish History
Screenshots from “Civil Disobedience—Demonstration and Clergy Arrest
at Soviet Consulate, November 18, 1985.” Original archival material found in
the Records
of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue
and Renewal, I-505; box 100;…
By Andrey
Filimonov, Archival Services Manager at the Center for Jewish History
“Zions Captives”: documentary on Ida
Nudel (watch online: http://digital.cjh.org/4585693)
Original archival material found
Houston Action for Soviet Jewry Records I-500; box 35; VHS tape 022; American
Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY; PID http://digital.cjh.org/798129
…
By Nicole Greenhouse, Archivist
The
American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History are proud
to highlight the AJHS Counter Culture Collections, a set
of over 170 linear feet of 25 smaller collections documenting Jewish involvement
in left politics, the Jewish Renewal movement, the Peace movement, and Jewish
student activism in the 20th century. Materials in…
By Andrey Filimonov
Audio recording: Public Service Announcements urging support for Soviet Jewry by Rita Moreno, Bayard Rustin, Sam Levenson and Alan King, recently digitized at the Center for Jewish History. Link to digital audio file: http://digital.cjh.org/4552838
Originally found on an open-reel tape, in the Records of National Conference on Soviet Jewry, I-181A, Box 369, Tape number M15.
…
By Patricia Glowinski, Archivist at the Center for Jewish History
Processed in the Shelby White & Leon
Levy Archival Processing Laboratory at the Center for Jewish History (CJH) are
the Grand Street Boy’s Association Records, just one of the many archival collections
of the American Jewish Historical Society, one of the five partner institutions
comprising CJH. The…
