Guide to the Papers of Jerry Goodman, undated, 1954, 1959-2008, 2011 (bulk 1971-1989)

*P-863

Processed by Vital Zajka and Andrey Filimonov

Selected posters, ephemera, and photographs were digitized with the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). Video and audio were digitized thanks to the generous support of the Blavatnik Foundation.

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Machine-readable finding aid created by Vital Zajka as MS Word document, April 2009. Finding aid was encoded by Marvin Rusinek on April 08, 2009. Accreted by Andrey Filimonov on March 30, 2012 and on June 27, 2016. Description is in English.

June 2016 Box 49 numbers updated by Leanora Lange. March 2017 Links to digitized audio added by Nicole Greenhouse. July 2017 Links to digitized video added, sponsor statement added, filename simplified, and digitization note updated by Leanora Lange.

Historical Note

Jerry Goodman speaking at a demonstration for Soviet Jewry in Philadelphia, December 1968.

The Papers of Jerry Goodman represent one collection housed within the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM). These papers reflect the effort, beginning in the 1960s through the late 1980s, of thousands of American Jews of all denominations and political orientations to stop the persecution and discrimination of Jews in the Soviet Union. The American Soviet Jewry Movement (ASJM) is considered to be the most influential Movements of the American Jewish community in the 20^th century. The beginnings of the organized American Soviet Jewry Movement became a model for efforts to aid Soviet Jews in other countries, among them Great Britain, Canada, and France. The movement can be traced to the early 1960s, when the first organizations were created to address the specific problem of the persecution and isolation of Soviet Jews by the government of the Soviet Union.

Jerry Goodman took an active part in the work of one such organization, the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry (AJCSJ), which existed from 1964-1971. The AJCSJ was mostly a coordinating body created by several major Jewish organizations and lacking permanent staff. In 1971 when the AJCSJ was transformed into a more centralized and structured organization with its own agenda, staff and budget, Jerry Goodman became the founding Executive Director. Goodman was instrumental in coordinating many Jewish communities and organizations in order to consolidate and channel influence, financial means and information in order to pressure the Soviet authorities to allow the free emigration of Jews from the USSR and end all forms of discrimination. For more than 20 years Goodman advocated on behalf of Soviet Jews which included political activism, interpersonal contacts with Soviet Jews, and work on informing the American public on the plight of Jews in the USSR. His work and dedication came to fruition in the second half of the 1980s, when the Soviet government started political reforms which allowed most of the Jews willing to emigrate from the Soviet Union to do so. The Soviet Jewish immigrants strengthened and influenced the American Jewish community and especially the State of Israel.

Jerry Goodman's papers are comprised of documents accumulated during his work as the external relations coordinator of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry and then as the founding Executive Director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON JERRY GOODMAN

Mr. Jerry Goodman holds a Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from New York University, with training as a Mediator. He is the founder of the Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement, a project of the American Jewish Historical Society, and served as its Senior Advisor.

He was from 1971 through 1988 the founding Executive Director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ), a nationwide coalition of 350 national and local groups, and is currently a member of its Board of Directors. NCSJ's mission was to improve conditions for Jews in the Soviet Union, end discrimination against their religious and cultural life, and to help achieve their right to leave.

Mr. Goodman was a consultant to the U.S. Congress in creating the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the "Helsinki Commission," and was a proponent of "Two Track Diplomacy." He helped secure the passage of the landmark Jackson-Vanik Amendment linking U.S.-Soviet trade to emigration. In addition, during his tenure, the largest human rights national manifestation for Soviet Jews was organized, when 250,000 Jews and non-Jews came to Washington, D.C. for Mikhail Gorbachev's summit meeting with President Ronald Reagan, in December 1987.

When Mr. Goodman left the NCSJ he became the Executive Director of the ad hoc International Committee for Sepharad '92, a global project to commemorate the 500^th Anniversary of the Expulsion of Jews from Spain, and to celebrate the rich history and cultural contributions of Sephardic Jews. Following the completion of his mandate, Mr. Goodman became the Executive Director of the National Committee for Labor Israel (NCLI).

Mr. Goodman was chairman of the Dalton Council, a faculty-parent planning and advisory group for the Dalton School, N.Y. He is a consultant to the Gorbachev Foundation, and is a board member of the Centre Bonastruc ca Porta, Girona, Spain. He is a consultant to the State of the World Forum as well as to KREAB, Gavin Anderson, a global strategic planning and communications company, and serves on the Advisory Council, American Society for the Jewish Heritage in Poland.

Mr. Goodman hosted the WPIX-TV series "Jewish Dimension," and the radio series, "Russia Reports." As the Director of European Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, he specialized in issues relating to post-war Europe, notably within Germany, the Soviet Union and East Europe. He writes and lectures on political and social issues concerning the Former Soviet Union, Israel, and the Middle East, and advises not-for-profit organizations in strategic planning, organization and communications.

Scope and Content Note

The Jerry Goodman Papers include materials from the mid-1960s through 2011, and the bulk of the collection is dated 1970s-1980s. Among the materials within this collection are documents related to the creation of the Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the AJHS, a project for which Jerry Goodman was a consultant and Senior Advisor in 2006-2008. The documents include correspondence, memoranda, publications, news clippings, photographs, slides, video and audio recordings, posters and broadsides, pins, bracelets, and pendants.

The collection is divided into twelve series.

Series I includes correspondence of Jerry Goodman, and is divided into two Sub-series, first of which being carbon copies of the outgoing letters by Jerry Goodman as the Executive Director of the NSCJ, and the second as miscellaneous correspondence both during and after his work as the NCSJ Executive Director.

Series II contains some fragmentary documents, including minutes, correspondence, reports, resolutions and notes of AJCSJ and documentation on strategy, fundraising and budget, as well as on various projects, of NCSJ.

Series III has memos and notes of most of the 1970s and 1980s, and Series IV covers various events, including conferences, dedicated to Soviet Jewry, which were held with participation from NCSJ. The series include correspondence, notes, research and promotional materials pertaining to The Power of Peoplehood: The Soviet Jewish Journey international conference commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, in tribute to those who struggled for the rights of the Soviet Jews that took place on November 9, 2011.

Series V, Series VI and Series VII include legal, statistical and general information on Soviet Jewry, anti-Semitism and broader background information on the Soviet Union. Series VIII includes information on European and World Jewry, including Israeli-Arab relations.

In Series IX there are presented later documents which reflect the effort to create and launch the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the AJHS.

Series X, Series XI and Series XII include photographs, ephemera, posters and non-paper materials, like pins, bracelets, pendants, audio and video recordings.

• List of Abbreviations

• AASJM-Archives of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
• AJC-American Jewish Committee
• AJCSJ-American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry
• ASJM-American Soviet Jewry Movement
• HIAS-Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
• NCSJ-National Conference on Soviet Jewry
• SSSJ-Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
• UJA-United Jewish Appeal
• UCSJ-Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry

Arrangement

The collection is divided into twelve series as follows:

• Series I: Executive Director's correspondence, undated, 1971-1992, 2001
  • Subseries A: Sorted correspondence, 1971-1978, 1980-1982, 1984-1988
  • Subseries B: Other correspondence, undated, 1971, 1973-1992, 2001
• Series II: AJCSJ and NCSJ administrative materials, undated, 1962-1973, 1976-1978, 1980, 1982-1989
  • Subseries A: AJCSJ, 1962-1970
  • Subseries B: NCSJ, undated, 1971-1973, 1976-1978, 1980, 1982-1989
• Series III: Memoranda and circular letters (memos, notes, minutes), undated, 1965, 1969-1970, 1972-1991, 2000
• Series IV: Conferences and events related to Soviet Jewry, undated, 1971, 1977, 1985-1989, 2011
• Series V: Legal materials related to SJM, undated, 1971-1978, 1986-1988
• Series VI: Publications on Soviet Jews and on the USSR, undated, 1959, 1964-1992, 1995-1997, 1999, 2001, 2004
  • Subseries A: Publications, undated, 1966-1991, 1995
  • Subseries B: Articles papers and reports, undated, 1965, 1968, 1970-1991, 1997, 2001, 2004
  • Subseries C: Press clippings, undated, 1959, 1964, 1970-1991, 1996-1997, 1999, 2001, 2004
  • Subseries D: Newsletters, undated, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982-1983, 1985-1992
• Series VII: Background information on the USSR, Soviet Jewry and US-USSR relations, undated, 1954, 1962, 1965-1970, 1974, 1976-1991, 1999
• Series VIII: Materials on Eastern Europe, Middle East and World Jewry, 1966-1971, 1977-1979, 1981-1989, 1991
• Series IX: Archives of the Soviet Jewry Movement project, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2004-2008
• Series X: Photographs, undated, 1968, 1971-1972, 1976-1978, 1981-1988, 1998
• Series XI: Ephemera, oversize materials, pins and other 3D objects, undated, 1968, 1970-1976, 1978, 1980-1986, 1988, 1991
• Series XII: Audio and Video materials, 1971-1972, 1977, 1983, 1986-1989, 1992, 1999

Access and Use

Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Director of Collections and Engagement of the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their fragility.

This collection contains audiovisual or electronic media that requires special equipment to access. Please notify reference staff at reference@ajhs.org 24 hours in advance of needing access.

Use Restrictions

Information concerning the literary rights may be obtained from the Director of Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society. Users must apply in writing for permission to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection. For more information contact:
American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011
email: reference@ajhs.org

Related Material

The Papers of Jerry Goodman is one individual collection within the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM) located at the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). Other Soviet Jewry Movement collections at AJHS include the records of Action for Soviet Jewry (I-487), the National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ; I-181 and I-181A), the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (I-410, I-410A), Houston Action for Soviet Jewry (I-500), Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews (I-505), Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry (I-507), The Jewish Chronicle Soviet Jewry Collection (I-523), B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Soviet Jewry Movement Collection (I-529), the papers of Joel Ackerman (P-787), Julia Mates Cheney (P-806), Jerry Goodman (P-863), Laurel and Alan J. Gould (P-866), Carolyn W. Sanger (P-870), Leah Lieberman (P-869), Si Frumkin (P-871), Elaine Pittell (P-873), Sanford A. Gradinger (P-880), Shaul Osadchey (P-882), Leonard S. Cahan (P-883), Doris H. Goldstein (P-887), David H. Hill (P-888), Margery Sanford (P-889), Pinchas Mordechai Teitz (P-891), David Waksberg (P-895), Pamela B. Cohen (P-897), Moshe Decter (P-899), William Korey (P-903), Morey Schapira (P-906), Charlotte Gerper Turner (P-907), Myrtle Sitowitz (P-908), Kathleen M. Hyman (P-911), Babette Wampold (P-912), Rabbi David Goldstein and Shannie Goldstein (P-918), Leslie Schaffer (P-923), Arthur Bernstein (P-925), Dolores Wilkenfeld (P-927), Sylvia Weinberg (P-928) , Irwin H. Krasna (P-934) , Constance Kreshtool Papers (P-935) , Betty Golomb (P-938), Grace Perlbinder (P-942), Mort Yadin (P-943), Ann Polunsky (P-886), Lillian Foreman (P-945), Marilyn Labendz(P-946), Abraham Silverstein(P-947), Bert Silver (P-949), Billie Kozolchyk (P-950), John Steinbruck (P-951), Lawrence I. Lerner (P-952), Ruth Geller Gold (P-953), Efry Spectre (P-954), Alan M. Kohn (P-956), Frank Brodsky (P-957), Victor Borden (P-959), Estelle Newman (P-960), Carol S. Kekst (P-961), Linda Rutta (P-965), Rachel Braun (P-967), Jack Forgash (P-968), Michael Greene (P-969), Judith A. Manelis (P-970), Fred Greene (P-971), Harry Lerner (P-972), Alan L. Cohen (P-973), Murray Levine (P-974), Jack Minker (P-975), Meta Joy Jacoby (P-992), Barry Marks (P-993), Harold and Judith S. Einhorn (P-996) and Carol and Michael Bierman (P-1007).

Additional materials from other collections include records dealing with the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) located within the North American Jewish Students Appeal (NAJSA, I-338) and the records of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC, I-172). Related records are also located at the AJHS in Boston, MA including memorabilia and ephemera of the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (I-237) and the Records of the Student Coalition for Soviet Jewry – Brandeis University (I-493).

Digitization Note

Selected photographs in Series X as well as selected posters and ephemera in Series XI were digitized and made available online in 2014. Selected audio in Series XII was migrated off of CDs and made available online in 2017. All unique VHS videocassettes in Series XII were digitized and made available online in 2017 with the exception of videocassettes 4-6, which were not digitized due to copyright concerns.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); Jerry Goodman Papers; P-863; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Jerry Goodman in 2003-2016.

Access Points

• Subject Names:

  • Begun, Iosif
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
  • Kosharovsky, Yuliy
  • Kuznetsov, Eduard
  • Nudel, Ida
  • Panov, Valery
  • Sakharov, Andrei, 1921-1989
  • Shcharansky, Anatoly (Sharansky, Natan)
  • Shcharansky, Avital
  • Slepak, Vladimir
  • Taratuta, Aba
  • Zalmanson, Silva

• Subject Topics:

  • Antisemitism
  • Bar mitzvah
  • Bat mitzvah
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Former Soviet republics
  • Human rights
  • International law
  • Jews, Soviet
  • Political activists
  • Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc.
  • Psychological abuse
  • Refugees
  • Refuseniks
  • Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985
  • US-USSR Relations

• Document types:

  • Audiocassettes
  • Broadsides
  • Bulletins
  • Clippings
  • Compact Discs
  • Correspondence
  • Legal documents
  • Magnetic tapes
  • Memorandum
  • Newsletters
  • Pamphlets
  • Pendants (jewelry)
  • Photographs
  • Pins
  • Posters
  • Press releases
  • Reports
  • Shopping bag
  • T-shirts
  • Transcripts
  • Videocassettes

Container List

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Click the box in the request column to open the form that allows you to request a box for onsite viewing in the reading room at the Center for Jewish History, New York, NY.

Series I: Executive Director's correspondence, undated, 1971-1992, 2001
The Series is in English.
Boxes 1-4.
Scope and Content: Series I include correspondence of Jerry Goodman, and is divided into two Sub-series, first of which being carbon copies of the outgoing letters by Jerry Goodman as the Executive director on the NSCJ, and the second as miscellaneous correspondence both during and after his work as the NCSJ Executive Director.
Subseries A: Sorted correspondence, 1971-1978, 1980-1982, 1984-1988
The Subseries is in English.
Boxes 1-3.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
1	1	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted	1971
1	2	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted	1972
1	3	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted	1973
1	4	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [1 of 2]	1974
1	5	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [2 of 2]	1974
1	6	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [1 of 2]	1975
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
2	1	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [2 of 2]	1975
2	2	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [1 of 2]	1976
2	3	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [2 of 2]	1976
2	4	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [1 of 2]	1977
2	5	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [2 of 2]	1977
2	6	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [1 of 2]	1978
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
3	1	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [2 of 2]	1978
3	2	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [1 of 2]	1980
3	3	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [2 of 2]	1980
3	4	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [1 of 2]	1981
3	5	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [2 of 2]	1981
3	6	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [1 of 2]	1982
3	7	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted [2 of 2]	1982
3	8	Correspondence, Outgoing, Sorted	1984-1988
Subseries B: Other Correspondence, undated, 1971, 1973-1992, 2001
The Subseries is in English.
Box 4.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
4	1	Correspondence, Miscellaneous	1971, 1973-1984
4	2	Correspondence, Miscellaneous	1985
4	3	Correspondence, Miscellaneous	1986
4	4	Correspondence, Miscellaneous	1987-1988
4	5	Correspondence, Miscellaneous	undated, 1988-1992, 2001

Series II: AJCSJ and NCSJ administrative materials, undated, 1962-1973, 1976-1978, 1980, 1982-1989
The Series is in English.
Boxes 5-6.
Scope and Content: Series II contains some fragmentary documents, including minutes, correspondence, reports, resolutions and notes of AJCSJ and documentation on strategy, fundraising and budget, as well as on various projects, of NCSJ.
Subseries A: AJCSJ, 1962-1970
The Subseries is in English.
Box 5.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
5	1	American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry	1962-1965
5	2	American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry	1966-1970
Subseries B: NCSJ, undated, 1971-1973, 1976-1978, 1980, 1982-1989
The Subseries is in English.
Box 6.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
6	1	Berenshtein Committee	undated, 1985
6	2	Corporate Sensitivity Project	undated, 1984, 1986-1988
6	3	Fundraising	undated, 1983-1985, 1987
6	4	National Advisory Council	undated, 1980, 1986-1989
6	5	NCSJ Management and Budget	1971, 1973, 1976-1977, 1982, 1985, 1987-1988
6	6	NCSJ Materials-Reprints	undated, 1972, 1977-1978
6	7	NCSJ Strategy Session, Transcript	May 6, 1985
6	8	Speakers Bureau	undated
6	9	Strategies and Tactics	1988-1989

Series III: Memoranda and circular letters (memos, notes, minutes), undated, 1965, 1969-1970, 1972-1991, 2000
The Series is in English.
Boxes 7-17.
Scope and Content: Series III has Memos and notes of most of the 1970s and 1980s.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
7	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1965, 1969-1970
7	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1972-1973
7	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1974
7	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1975
7	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1976
7	6	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1976
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
8	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1977
8	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1977
8	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1978
8	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1978
8	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
9	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1980
9	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1980
9	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1981
9	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1981
9	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1982
9	6	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1982
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
10	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1983
10	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1983
10	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1983
10	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1984
10	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1984
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
11	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1984
11	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1984
11	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1985
11	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1985
11	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
12	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1986
12	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1986
12	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1986
12	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1986
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
13	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1987
13	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1987
13	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1987
13	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1988
13	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
14	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1988
14	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1988
14	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1988
14	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1989
14	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1989
14	6	Memos, Minutes, Notes	1990-1991, 2000
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
15	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
15	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
15	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
15	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
15	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
16	1	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
16	2	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
16	3	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
16	4	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
16	5	Memos, Minutes, Notes	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
17	1	Notes and Speeches on Soviet Jews	undated, 1980-1981
17	2	Speeches and Accompanying Material	undated, 1982-1983, 1986
17	3	Speeches on Soviet Jewry	undated, 1975, 1977-1978

Series IV: Conferences and events related to Soviet Jewry, undated, 1971, 1977, 1985-1989, 2011
The Series is in English.
Boxes 18-19, 50.
Scope and Content: Series IV covers various events, including conferences, dedicated to Soviet Jewry, which were held with participation from NCSJ. The series include correspondence, notes, research and promotional materials pertaining to The Power of Peoplehood: The Soviet Jewish Journey international conference commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, in tribute to those who struggled for the rights of the Soviet Jews that took place on November 9, 2011.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
18	1	Ad Hoc Commission on Justice for Anatoly Sharansky	October 20, 1977
18	2	Brussels Conference [1 of 5]	1971
18	3	Brussels Conference [2 of 5]	1971
18	4	Brussels Conference [3 of 5]	1971
18	5	Brussels Conference [4 of 5]	1971
18	6	Brussels Conference [5 of 5]	1971
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
19	1	Commission of Inquiry on the Rights of Soviet Jews [1 of 2]	June 22, 1971
19	2	Commission of Inquiry on the Rights of Soviet Jews [2 of 2]	June 22, 1971
19	4	Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe	undated, 1986-1988
19	3	Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe	1985, 1988-1989
19	5	Summit 3	undated, 1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
50	1	The Power of Peoplehood: The Soviet Jewish Journey: International Conference Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, November 9, 2011 [1 of 2]	undated, 2011
50	2	The Power of Peoplehood: The Soviet Jewish Journey: International Conference Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, November 9, 2011 [2 of 2]	undated, 2011

Series V: Legal materials related to SJM, undated, 1971-1978, 1986-1988
The Series is in English and Russian.
Boxes 20-21.
Scope and Content: Series V contains legal information related to the Soviet Jewry movement.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
20	1	Kishinev Trial	undated, 1971-1974
20	2	Legal Issues	undated, 1986-1988
20	3	Leningrad Trial II	undated, 1972-1973
20	4	Manuscript "Pravosudie, Zakonnost, Prava Lichnosti" by Vasiliy Vlasikhin	1987
		(in Russian)
20	5	Manuscript "Soviet Criminal Justice and Jewish Emigration" by Telford Taylor	1975
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
21	1	National Lawyers Committee -- Manual on Representing Refuseniks	1988
21	2	Telford Taylor [1 of 3]	undated, 1973-1975
21	3	Telford Taylor [2 of 3]	undated, 1973-1975
21	4	Telford Taylor [3 of 3]	undated, 1973-1975
21	5	Telford Taylor's POC Project	1975
21	6	Telford Taylor's POC Project	undated, 1976-1978

Series VI: Publications on Soviet Jews and on the USSR, undated, 1959, 1964-1992, 1995-1997, 1999, 2001, 2004
The Series is in English and French.
Boxes 22-34.
Scope and Content: Series VI consists of publications on Soviet Jews and on the USSR.
Subseries A: Publications, undated, 1966-1991, 1995
The Subseries is in English.
Boxes 22-25.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
22	1	Publications	1966
22	2	Publications	1967
22	3	Publications	1968
22	4	Publications	1969
22	5	Publications	1970
22	6	Publications	1971
22	7	Publications	1971
22	8	Publications	1972
22	9	Publications	1973
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
23	1	Publications	1974
23	2	Publications	1975
23	3	Publications	1976
23	4	Publications	1977
23	5	Publications	1978
23	6	Publications	1979
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
24	1	Publications	1980
24	2	Publications	1981
24	3	Publications	1982
24	4	Publications	1983
24	5	Publications	1984
24	6	Publications	1985
24	7	Publications	1986
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
25	1	Publications	1987
25	2	Publications	1988
25	3	Publications	1989
25	4	Publications	1990-1991
25	5	Publications	1995
25	6	Publications	undated
Subseries B: Articles, papers and reports, undated, 1965, 1968, 1970-1991, 1997, 2001, 2004
The Subseries is in English.
Boxes 26-29.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
26	1	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1965, 1968, 1970-1975
26	2	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1976-1977
26	3	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1978
26	4	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1979
26	5	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1980-1981
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
27	1	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1982
27	2	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1983
27	3	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1984
27	4	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1985
27	5	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1986
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
28	1	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1987
28	2	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1987
28	3	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1987
28	4	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1988
28	5	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1988
28	6	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1989-1991
28	7	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	1997, 2001, 2004
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
29	1	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	undated
29	2	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	undated
29	3	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	undated
29	4	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	undated
29	5	Articles, Papers and Reports on Soviet Jewry	undated
Subseries C: Press clippings, undated, 1959, 1964, 1970-1991, 1996-1997, 1999, 2001, 2004
The Subseries is in English.
Boxes 30-33.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
30	1	Clippings	1959, 1964, 1970-1974
30	2	Clippings	1975-1977
30	3	Clippings	1978
30	4	Clippings	1979
30	5	Clippings	1980
30	6	Clippings	1981
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
31	1	Clippings	1982
31	2	Clippings	1983
31	3	Clippings	1983
31	4	Clippings	1984
31	5	Clippings	1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
32	1	Clippings	1986
32	2	Clippings	1986
32	3	Clippings	1987
32	4	Clippings	1987
32	5	Clippings	1988
32	6	Clippings	1988
32	7	Clippings	1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
33	1	Clippings	1989
33	2	Clippings	1989
33	3	Clippings	1990-1991, 1996-1997, 1999, 2001, 2004
33	4	Clippings	undated
Subseries D: Newsletters, undated, 1977, 1979-1980, 1982-1983, 1985-1992
The Subseries is in English and French.
Box 34.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
34	1	Digest, NCSJ	1986-1987 (with gaps)
34	2	Focus: Soviet Jewry	1987-1988 (with gaps)
34	3	Information	1988-1991 (with gaps)
34	4	Insight Soviet Jews	1980, 1983, 1985, 1988 (with gaps)
34	5	Jews in the USSR	undated, 1992 (with gaps)
34	6	National Conference on Soviet Jewry: News Bulletin	1977 (with gaps)
34	7	National Conference on Soviet Jewry: Wrap-Up Leadership Report	undated, 1979-1980
34	8	Newsbreak, NCSJ	1985, 1987-1990
34	9	Research Report	1982, 1985-1988 (with gaps)
34	10	Un Mois Les Juifs D' URSS	1988 (with gaps)
		(in French)

Series VII: Background information on the USSR, Soviet Jewry and US-USSR relations, undated, 1954, 1962, 1965-1970, 1974, 1976-1991, 1999
The Series is in English.
Boxes 35-40.
Scope and Content: Series VII contains broader background information on the USSR, Soviet Jewry, and U.S.-USSR relations.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
35	1	Anti-semitism	undated, 1954, 1985, 1988-1990
35	2	Basic Data on Soviet Jewry	1987-1988
35	3	Briefing Papers on Soviet Jewry	undated, 1976
35	4	Congressional Research Service Briefing Book	1988
35	5	Council of Jewish Federations: Soviet Jewry Advisory Study Committee [1 of 2]	undated, 1984-1985, 1987-1988
35	6	Council of Jewish Federations: Soviet Jewry Advisory Study Committee [2 of 2]	undated, 1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
36	2	Goldstein Family	undated, 1979, 1982-1985
36	1	David Gorelik and Elazar Muskin: Trip to USSR	1983-1984
36	3	Gorbachev's Reforms' Effect on Soviet Jews and Emigration	undated, 1988-1989
36	4	Jackson-Vanik Amendment	1985-1991
36	5	Jackson-Vanik Amendment	1974, 1982-1984
36	6	Jewish Culture in USSR	1988-1989
36	7	Jewish Religion and Culture in USSR	undated, 1988-1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
37	1	Lists of Refuseniks and Refusenik Profiles	undated, 1985-1986, 1988
37	2	Manuscript "The Struggle to Maintain the Jackson Amendment and the Right of Soviet Jews to Emigrate," by Ruben Efron	1984
37	3	Manuscript "The Third Emigration" by Daniel M. Jaffe	1979
37	4	President Carter	1976
37	5	Reagan Administration	1981, 1983, 1987-1988
37	6	Resettlement of Soviet Jews in Israel	1990
37	7	Soviet American Exchange and Soviet Jews	undated, 1987
37	8	Soviet Antisemitism [1 of 2]	undated, 1967-1970
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
38	1	Soviet Antisemitism [2 of 2]	undated, 1967-1970
38	2	Soviet Culture	undated, 1962, 1966, 1969, 1986-1987, 1989
38	3	Soviet Foreign Relations	undated, 1985, 1987
38	4	Soviet Jewry Information	undated, 1965, 1968, 1977, 1979-1981, 1983
38	5	Soviet Jewish Emigration	1976, 1978-1980
38	6	Soviet Jewish Emigration	1981-1982
38	7	Soviet Jewish Emigration	1983-1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
39	1	Soviet Jewish Emigration	undated, 1986
39	2	Soviet Jewish Emigration	undated
39	3	Soviet Jewry Emigration Statistics	1988-1989
39	4	Soviet Propaganda Campaign Letters	1979
39	5	Soviet Union History and Politics	undated, 1967, 1969-1970, 1976-1980, 1986
39	6	Thesis: "Recent Soviet Immigration" by B. P. Levenfeld	1976
39	7	Thesis: "The Key to the Iron Gate: The Impact of Jewish American Lobbying on the Release and Resettlement of Soviet Jews During the Gorbachev Era," by Erica M. Newman	1999
39	8	Travel to USSR	1979, 1981-1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
40	1	Updates on the situation of the Soviet and FSU Jews	1972, 1982-1993
40	2	U.S. Administration and Congress	1981-1982, 1984, 1986, 1988-1989
40	3	U.S.-USSR Relations	1974, 1976-1978
40	4	U.S.-USSR Relations	1983-1986
40	5	U.S.-USSR Relations	undated, 1987-1988
40	6	U.S.-USSR Relations	1989
40	7	U.S.-USSR Trade	undated, 1988-1989
40	8	Vladimir Feltsman's Concerts in USA	1988

Series VIII: Materials on Eastern Europe, Middle East and World Jewry, 1966-1971, 1977-1979, 1981-1989, 1991
The Series is in English.
Box 41.
Scope and Content: Series VIII includes information on the European and World Jewry, including Israeli-Arab relations.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
41	1	Czechoslovakia's events of 1968 and Jews	1968-1970
41	2	Dr. Miloslav Stojadinovic, rescuer of Yugoslav Jews	1966-1967, 1985
41	3	Holocaust publications	1968-1971, 1978, 1981-1983, 1985, 1988
41	4	Jews in Eastern Europe	1970, 1984, 1986-1987
41	5	Middle East politics	1977, 1979, 1982
41	6	Soviet Jewry Oral History project	1988-1989, 1991
41	7	Travel in Europe and the USSR	1967

Series IX: Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement Project, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2004-2008
The Series is in English.
Box 42-43, 51-53.
Scope and Content: In Series IX there are presented later documents which reflect the effort to create and launch the American Soviet Jewry Movement project at the AJHS.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
42	1	Jackson-Vanik Amendment Conference	1995
42	2	Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement project development	1999, 2002, 2004-2005
42	3	Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement project-NEH grant	2005
42	4	UJA Federation grant proposal	2004-2006
42	5	Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement (AASJM) Project	2006
42	6	AASJM Project-steering committee	2006
42	7	Archive of the ASJM (AASJM) project, booklets	2006
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
43	1	AASJM, launch of the project, correspondence	2004, 2006
43	2	Acquisition and accessioning of the UCSJ materials from University of Colorado	2006
43	4	Correspondence regarding AASJM, e-mails, printed	2007
43	5	Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award Dinner	2007
43	6	Correspondence of Jerry Goodman	2008
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
51	1	AASJM Advisory Committee	2003, 2007-2008
51	2	AASJM Archival Sources and Follow-up	2007-2008
51	3	AASJM Correspondence	2004, 2007-2008
51	4	AASJM Correspondence	2006-2007
51	5	AASJM Correspondence	2007
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
52	1	AASJM Correspondence	2008
52	2	AASJM Correspondence	2008
52	3	AASJM Correspondence: Los Angeles	2007-2008
52	4	AASJM Fundraising	undated, 2006-2008
52	5	AASJM Lists	2006-2008
52	6	AASJM Oral Histories	undated, 2007-2008
52	7	AASJM Organizational	1982-1983, 2007-2008
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
53	1	AASJM Outreach	2004-2007
53	2	AASJM Roll of Honor	2007-2008
53	3	AASJM Timeline	2008
53	4	AASJM Website	2008
53	5	Lou Rosenblum	undated, 1986, 2008
53	6	Refusenik Movie	2008

Series X: Photographs, undated, 1968, 1971-1972, 1976-1978, 1981-1988, 1998
Box 44, Folders 2-7.
Scope and Content: Series X consists of photographs.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
44	1	Goldstein Brothers From Tbilisi	undated
44	2	Moscow	undated, 1984
44	3	SJM Events Abroad	1977, 1983-1984
44	4	SJM Events in the USA	undated, 1968, 1971-1972, 1976-1978, 1982-1988, 1998
		View the folder
44	5	Trips Abroad	1976, 1981, 1987
44	6	Photos: Trip to USSR with Three Members of Congress--Sam Gejdenson, Chris Smith and Mark Levin	1986
44	7	USSR Jews, Cities and Synagogues	undated, 1984-1985

Series XI: Ephemera, Oversize materials, Pins and other 3D objects, undated, 1968, 1970-1976, 1978, 1980-1986, 1988, 1991
The Series is in English.
Boxes 45-47, OS1F Folder 1.
Scope and Content: Series XI is composed of ephemera, oversize materials, pins, and other 3D objects.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
45	1	Ephemera	1968, 1971-1976, 1978, 1980-1983, 1985, 1988
45	2	Ephemera	undated, 1970-1972, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1985-1986, 1988
45	3	Ephemera	1974, 1984, 1988, 1991
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
46 (OS1)		Sixty-one (61) Soviet Jewry Movement and related metal pins
		View the folder
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
47	1	T-shirt, “Freedom Run for Soviet Jewry, Tucson, AZ, 1983”, Red, size Large
47	2	Scarf, “I Showed Up: Washington, D.C. Summit, December 1987”, Red
47	3	Metal Dogtag Stamped with “NCSY--Mark Dymshitz, USSR Prisoner, Free Them Now”
47	4	Four (4) Metal Bracelets Stamped with Names of Soviet Jewish Prisoners of Conscience and Dates of Their Imprisonment: Ilya & Anna Essas, Yosif Mendelevich, Anatoly Sharansky, Vladimir Slepak
47	5	2 Metal Bracelets With Stamped with the Star of David and the name “National Conference on Soviet Jewry”
47	6	Blue Beads with Yellow Metal Stars of David
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
MAP1	1	Posters, Broadsides and Shopping Bag
		Hebrew Alphabet poster with Russian transliteration distributed at the Moscow International Book Fair. Published by the Association of Jewish Book Publishers in Cooperation with National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Reykjavík Summit poster—USA and Soviet flags design with text in Russian and English. Published by the City of Reykjavík. Reykjavík Summit poster—Portraits of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in a Viking ship. Publisher: Bokautgafan Orn og Orlygur HF, Reykjavík, Iceland. Boris Penson: Art from a Soviet Prison. Poster from Exhibit sponsored by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, under the auspices of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. A Declaration of Rights for Soviet Jewry. A Call Issued by the American Soviet Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, April 18, 1966. An oversized facsimile. "The Cat and the Kid" Passover Haggadah with text in Hebrew and Russian. Print from a lithograph by Anatole Kaplan, Leningrad, 1960.
		National Eternal Light Vigil for Soviet Jewry
		These Jews are missing...
		Welcome President Gorbachev...
		Secretary Shultz: seventy three women and men are risking their lives...
		If you stay put on December 6th...
		Freedom for the Jews in USSR. Brussels 17-19 February 1976.

Series XII: Audio and Video materials, 1971-1972, 1977, 1983, 1986-1989, 1992, 1999
The Series is in English.
Box 48-49.
Scope and Content: Series XII consists of audio and video recordings. Note: Audio materials in this collection are related to similar materials within the NCSJ collection, I-181A. Selected audio was migrated off of CDs and made available online in 2017. All unique VHS videocassettes were digitized and made available online in 2017 with the exception of videocassettes 4-6, which were not digitized due to copyright concerns.
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
48	1-3	Council of Jewish Federations Board of Directors Meeting, CJF Satellite Network	June 6, 1988
		This event was captured across three VHS tapes, which are all available here.
		View the item
48	4	VHS, C-SPAN, Freedom for Soviet Jewry Rally	December 6, 1987
		This videocassette was not digitized due to copyright concerns.
48	5	VHS, C-SPAN, Freedom Sunday [Part 1 of 2]	December 6, 1987
		This videocassette was not digitized due to copyright concerns.
48	6	VHS, C-SPAN, Freedom Sunday [Part 2 of 2]	December 6, 1987
		This videocassette was not digitized due to copyright concerns.
48	7	Home Address: Israel	December 14, 1988
		View the item
48	8	Freedom Sunday, December 6, 1987	1987
		View the item
48	9	Summit II and Soviet Jews: A Time of Opportunity	circa 1980s
		View the item
48	10	Scharansky: The Struggle Continues	November 26, 1986
		This is a duplicate of a previously digitized videocassette (I-505, box 101, BACSJ-089) which can be viewed at http://digital.cjh.org/4500819.
48	11	Window on a Miracle: The Rebirth of Jewish Community in the Former Soviet Union	1999
		View the item
Box	Folder	Title	Date	Request
49(PHONO)	1	AJC Oral History Meeting: Morris Abram
		Compact cassette, available on CD
		Listen to audio
49(PHONO)	2	Conversation with Wendy Litwack About Soviet Jewry Activity in US and Canada	July 11, 1989
		2 Microcassettes, available on CD
		Listen to audio
49(PHONO)	3	A Message from Chairman Shoshana S.Cardin: "The Changing Challenges"	Rosh Hashana 5753/ September 1992
		Compact cassette, available on CD
		Listen to audio
49(PHONO)	4	Synagogue Service, Cantorial and Music Ceremony in English, USA
		Compact cassette, available on CD
		Listen to audio
49(PHONO)	5	A. Brumberg, M. Decter
		4” Tape Reel, available on CD
		Listen to audio
49(PHONO)	6	12” Vinyl Record, “I Am a Jew: Emil Gorovets Sings Songs of the Martyred Yiddish Poets of Soviet Russia”	1977
49(PHONO)	7	12” Vinyl Record, Theodore Bikel, “Silent No More: Jewish Underground Songs From Soviet Russia”	1971
49(PHONO)	8	7” Vinyl Record, Peter, Paul and Mary “El Salvador and Light One Candle”	1983
49(PHONO)	9	7” Vinyl Record, The All-Party Parliamentary Committee for the Release of Soviet Jewry Presents: A Bar Mitzvah Gift for Leonid Slepak (Available on CD)	1972
49(PHONO)	10	CD, Interview with Charlotte Jacobson
49(PHONO)	11	CD, Interview with Joel and Adele Sandberg
49(PHONO)	12	CD, Interview with Rabbi David Hill (Part 1)
49(PHONO)	13	CD, Interview with Rabbi David Hill (Part 2)
49(PHONO)	14	DVD, "Refuseniks", Ralph Applebaum Associates	2013