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Descriptive Summary
Creator:	David Waksberg (1956- )
Title:	David Waksberg Papers
Dates:	1970-1997 (bulk 1982-1995)
Abstract:	The David Waksberg Papers are comprised of materials generated while Waksberg served in a variety of leadership roles in the American Soviet Jewry Movement in the 1980s and early 1990s: Executive Director of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews (BACSJ); National Vice-President of Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ); member of the UCSJ Board of Directors; Director of the Center for Jewish Renewal; Director of Development and Communication of UCSJ; a founder of the Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights in Moscow. The materials primarily consist of correspondence, reports, grant proposals, notes, clippings, newsletters and photographs.
Languages:	The collection is primarily in English, with some Russian throughout, and a few items in Hebrew, Yiddish, and French.
Quantity:	18 manuscript boxes
Quantity:	9 linear feet
Accession number:	P-895
Repository:	American Jewish Historical Society

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Historical and Biographical Note

The David Waksberg Papers 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 one of the most influential movements of the American Jewish community in the 20th 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.

David Jonathan Waksberg, born December 14, 1956 in New York City, was involved in the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry before moving to California, where in 1981 he began working for the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews (BACSJ) as Assistant Director. In 1982 Waksberg became BACSJ's Executive Director, supervising all organizational activities, which included: public and political advocacy on behalf of Soviet Jews; research and monitoring of the living conditions of Soviet Jews; administration of financial, medical and legal aid to refuseniks and prisoners of conscience; demonstrations and vigils; preparing travelers for visits to refuseniks; and fundraising. By 1983 he was on the Board of Directors of BACSJ's umbrella organization, the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ), and he then became National Vice-President of UCSJ in 1985.

In his work for the BACSJ and UCSJ, Waksberg made frequent trips to the Soviet Union and the Former Soviet states in the 1980s and 1990s. He led numerous protests outside the Soviet consulate in San Francisco. He supported the Soviet Jewry movement also in deeply personal ways; in 1983, for example, his marriage to Ellen Bob was a theatrical display of protest. They staged their traditional Jewish wedding in San Francisco's Union Square, standing under the chuppah as proxies for a refusenik couple, Yuri and Olga Tarnopolsky, who were not allowed by Soviet authorities to marry in a Jewish wedding ceremony.

In 1990, UCSJ established the US-USSR Center for Jewish Renewal and headquartered the programming arm of the Center in BACSJ’s office in San Francisco. Waksberg devoted three days a week of his BACSJ time to the new position of Director of the Center for Jewish Renewal (CJR). The initial mission of the CJR revolved around the promotion of renewal and development of Jewish life in the Soviet Union and later Former Soviet Union (FSU). However, the CJR’s mission shifted slightly from purely cultural, religious and educational initiatives to instead address the emigration rights, human rights and resettlement needs of Jews in the transitioning FSU. The CJR together with BACSJ and UCSJ supported the openings and operations of a network of human rights and emigration bureaus in major FSU cities.

When Waksberg stepped down as Executive Director of BACSJ in 1994, he became a member of the BACSJ's Board of Directors, and he also took on the role of Director of Development and Communication of the UCSJ.

Waksberg left the non-profit world in 1995, working at Descartes Systems Group for twelve years, until he accepted the position of Executive Director of the Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco in 2007.

References

Palevsky, Stacey. "Soviet Jewry activist chosen to head BJE." j. June 8, 2007. Accessed June 14, 2010 from: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/32685/soviet-jewry-activist-chosen-to-head-bje/

Pine, Dan. "Soviet Jewry movement celebrates 40th anniversary." j. December 10, 2007. Accessed June 14, 2010 from: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/33978/soviet-jewry-movement-celebrates-40th-anniversary/

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Scope and Content Note

The David Waksberg Papers most substantially reflect Waksberg’s work for BACSJ, UCSJ and CJR in the late 1980s and early 1990s on behalf of Soviet Jews. The collection documents the BACSJ’s, UCSJ's and CJR’s activities, goals, reactions to events, and shifts in policy, as well as general topics such as refuseniks, prisoners of conscience, emigration law, anti-Semitism, US-USSR relations and the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.

The papers are of a purely professional nature, not related to Waksberg’s personal life aside from items about his politically staged marriage in 1983 (Box 11, Folder 14). Waksberg interfiled most material generated in connection with his intersecting leadership roles, with the exceptions of separate clusters of materials on the human rights bureaus in Series III and UCSJ fundraising activities in Series IV. Document types consist of correspondence, reports, grant proposals, notes, clippings and photographs.

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Arrangement

Approximately half of David Waksberg’s incoming papers had been organized by him into subject files, and the other half was largely unfiled and unfoldered. They have been arranged into six series.

• Series I: Correspondence, 1982-1997
• Series II: Subject Files, 1970-1996
• Series III: Human Rights Bureaus in the Former Soviet Union, 1990-1996
• Series IV: Fundraising and Projects, 1987-1996
• Series V: Clippings, 1980-1995
• Series VI: Photographs, undated, 1986-1995

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

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

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

E-mail: info@ajhs.org

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Related Material

The David Waksberg Papers 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), Medical Mobilization for Soviet Jewry, 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), 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) and Pamela B. Cohen (P-897).

Over 322 linear feet of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews Records are currently being processed (as of July 2010).

Individual accounts of activities within the Soviet Jewry Movement are preserved in the UJA Oral History Collection (I-433), which includes accounts from members of the following organizations: the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews, Seattle Action for Soviet Jews, Houston Action for Soviet Jews, Chicago Action for Soviet Jews, Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jews and the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Interviewees include accounts by David Waksberg, Lillian Forman, Ann Polunsky, Morey Schapira, Myrtle Sitowitz, Deborah Turkin, Sylvia Weinberg and Dolores Wilkenfeld. In addition, posters related to the Soviet Jewry Movement can be found in the Jewish Student Organizations Collection (I-61).

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).

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Separated Material

Standard weekly packets issued between March 1986 and December 1992 by the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) for Member Councils, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee were deaccessioned because the packets in this date range already exist in the UCSJ Records and because Waksberg had made no notations on them.

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); David Waksberg Papers; P-895; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.

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Acquisition Information

The records were donated by the University of Colorado at Boulder on July 9, 2008 (accession #2008.35).

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Access Points

• Subject Names:

  • Shcharansky, Anatoly (Sharansky, Natan)
  • Waksberg, David

• Subject Organizations:

  • Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews
  • Union of Councils for Soviet Jews

• Subject Places:

  • Former Soviet republics
  • San Francisco (Calif.)
  • Soviet Union

• Subject Topics:

  • Antisemitism
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Human rights
  • Jews, Soviet
  • Political activists
  • Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc.
  • Refugees
  • Refuseniks

• Document Types:

  • Clippings
  • Correspondence
  • Grant proposals
  • Memorandums
  • Newsletters
  • Photographs
  • Reports
  • Speeches

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Container List

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

Series I: Correspondence, 1982-1997.
1.75 linear feet. Boxes 1-4.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Scope and Content: David Waksberg’s interoffice, incoming, and outgoing correspondence richly documents the BACSJ’s and UCSJ’s activities, goals, reactions to events, and shifts in policy. A substantial portion of the correspondence was deemed confidential at the time. Frequent correspondents include Marillyn Tallman, Morey Schapira, Mitchell Platt, Micah Naftalin and Pamela Braun Cohen. Between 1985 and 1987 there is extensive correspondence related to trips made to the USSR on behalf of refuseniks. Large amounts of correspondence can also be found in Series II, III and IV.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	1	Correspondence	1982
1	2	Correspondence	1983
1	3	Correspondence	1984
1	4	Correspondence	1985
1	5	Correspondence	1985
1	6	Correspondence	1986
1	7	Correspondence	1986
1	8	Correspondence	1986
1	9	Correspondence	1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	1	Correspondence	1987
2	2	Correspondence	1987
2	3	Correspondence	1988
2	4	Correspondence	1988
2	5	Correspondence	1988
2	6	Correspondence	1988
2	7	Correspondence	1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	1	Correspondence	1988
3	2	Correspondence	1989
3	3	Correspondence	1990
3	4	Correspondence	1990
3	5	Correspondence	1991
3	6	Correspondence	1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	1	Correspondence	1993
4	2	Correspondence	1994
4	3	Correspondence	1995
4	4	Correspondence	1996
4	5	Correspondence	1997
4	6	Correspondence	undated

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Series II: Subject Files, 1970-1996.
5.25 linear feet. Boxes 4-14.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
Scope and Content: Waksberg maintained his subject files in such a way that their contents frequently relate to all of his organizational roles. In addition to files on general subjects, this series include files on individuals, projects, places, events and publications. Topics covered include refuseniks, prisoners of conscience, emigration law, anti-Semitism, US-USSR relations, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, direct flights from the USSR to Israel, the mock Sharansky Tribunal and UCSJ’s Commission of Inquiry. Material types consist of reports, correspondence, proposals, notes, clippings, general mailings, information packets, newletters, and speeches. The trip reports in Boxes 11 and 12 detail clandestine visits to refuseniks in the USSR by American travelers briefed by BACSJ and UCSJ. These reports are rich in anecdotes and details about the lives of refuseniks. Early on Waksberg maintained a file he labeled “Confidential” (Box 6, Folder 16). Much of the contents regard intra-organizational issues, some related to the KGB, such as concern over one volunteer’s possible connection to the KGB.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	7	Abram, Morris	1987
4	8	Advocacy -- Refusenik Casework Overview	1990
4	9	Aish HaTorah	1995
4	10	Albats, Yevgenia	1995
4	11	American Bar Association and Association of Soviet Lawyers	1986-1987
4	12	AMI	1990
4	13	Analysis of Jewish Emigration from the USSR	1990-1991
4	14	Andizhan, Uzbekistan	1990
4	15	Anti-Semitism	1983-1994
4	16	Anti-Semitism -- Personal Accounts	1990-1992
4	17	Anti-Semitism Research Project	1991
4	18	Arzt, Donna	1987-1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
5	1	BACSJ -- Adoption of a Refusenik	1985
5	2	BACSJ -- Allocation Request to Jewish Federation of San Jose	1988
5	3	BACSJ -- "BACSJ: A Market Research Analysis"	1986
5	4	BACSJ -- "BACSJ and the Soviet Coup" Press Coverage	1991
5	5	BACSJ -- Board of Directors	1988-1993
5	6	BACSJ -- Bonner Reception	1986
5	7	BACSJ -- Committees	undated
5	8	BACSJ -- Creative Strategy	1987
5	9	BACSJ -- Declaration of Custodian of Records	1987
5	10	BACSJ -- Events	1986-1991
5	11	BACSJ -- Executive Committee	1987-1993
5	12	BACSJ -- Financials	1987-1993
5	13	BACSJ -- General	undated, 1986-1991
5	14	BACSJ -- Law Suit	1986-1988
5	15	BACSJ -- Media Campaign	1987
5	16	BACSJ -- Media Notebook	1984
5	17	BACSJ -- Meetings	undated, 1988-1992
5	18	BACSJ -- Outcry	1985-1991
5	19	BACSJ -- Press Kit	1990
5	20	BACSJ -- Press Releases	1986-1989
5	21	BACSJ -- "Prosecution of Jewish Emigration Activists in the USSR" Study	1986
5	22	BACSJ -- Staff Meeting Minutes	1988
5	23	BACSJ -- Symposia Series	undated
5	24	Begun, Yosef	1995
5	25	Bloch, Ruth	1983-1985
Box	Folder	Title	Date
6	1	Bob, Steven M.	1988
6	2	Bogolmolny Family	1985-1986
6	3	Bolshakov, Vladislav and Michael Shapiro	1992
6	4	Book Publishing	1989-1994
6	5	Boxer, Barbara	1991
6	6	Carlebach, Shlomo	1989
6	7	Center for Human Rights Advocacy	1992-1994
6	8	Center for Jewish Renewal (CJR)	1990-1992
6	9	CJR News Brief	1991-1992
6	10	Center for US-Soviet Jewish Friendship and Exchange	undated
6	11	Chechnya	1995
6	12	Civil Liberties Act of 1988	1988
6	13	Cohen, Pamela Braun -- "A Decade of Leadership"	1996
6	14	Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe	1986
6	15	Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe	1988-1989
6	16	Confidential	1983-1985
6	17	Congress of Jewish Organizations and Communities of the USSR	1989
6	18	Criminal Justice Advocacy Institute	1993-1994
6	19	Direct Flights to Israel from USSR	1987-1989
6	20	Disinformation	1988-1989
Box	Folder	Title	Date
7	1	Documentary Proposals	1989-1990
7	2	Dorf, Julie	1992-1994
7	3	"Embassy Nine" Trial Documents	1986
7	4	Emigration Law	1992
7	5	Emigration Law and Figures	1989-1991
7	6	Enger, Daniel	1985
7	7	Ethiopian Jewry	1986-1988
7	8	Evans, Mike	1984-1985
7	9	Expenses	1989
7	10	Fattakhov, Dmitry	1995
7	11	File Directories	1986
7	12	Food Project	1992
7	13	"Freedom of Movement for All" Symposium	1989
7	14	Fundraising Letters	1988
7	15	Glasnost Information Bulletin	1987
7	16	Goble, Paul	1993-1994
7	17	Gopstein, Yevsey Yefimovich	1991
7	18	Gulko, Bella	1994
7	19	Holocaust Oral History Project	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
8	1	Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)	1988-1991
8	2	Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)	1988-1991
8	3	Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)	1991-1993
8	4	Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)	1992-1995
8	5	Insurance	1987
8	6	Interfaith Conference to the USSR	1988-1989
8	7	Interfaith Sharansky Briefing	1987
8	8	International Children's Day	1987
8	9	International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity	1988
8	10	Jackson-Vanik Amendment	1979-1989
8	11	Jazz Group -- Bob Murphy	1987
8	12	Jewish Agency for Israel	1992
8	13	Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco	1970, 1987
Box	Folder	Title	Date
9	1	Jewish Cultural Association	1988-1989
9	2	Job Descriptions	undated
9	3	Kamenev, Valentin	1988-1990
9	4	Kaplan, Sunny	undated
9	5	Kelman, Boris	1989-1990
9	6	Kharkov News from Cincinnati	1989
9	7	Kontouri	1990
9	8	Kotler, Igor	1993
9	9	Lazarus, Irwin	1984
9	10	Leningrad Art Show in United States	1988-1989
9	11	Leningrad Society for Jewish Culture	1990
9	12	Lezov, Sergey and Borovaya, Olga	1990-1995
9	13	Lifeline	1987-1990
9	14	Lists of Refuseniks and Prisoners of Conscience	1988-1992
9	15	Miscellaneous	1983-1994
9	16	Moscow Jewish Film Festival	1989
9	17	Moscow Refusenik Scientific Seminars	1988-1989
9	18	"(Mostly) Funny Stories about a Serious Struggle" by Si Frumkin	undated
9	19	Muravchick, Joshua	1991
9	20	Music	1989-1991
9	21	Musicians	1982-1990
9	22	Naaseh Seminar	1993
9	23	Nadgorny, Nina	1993-1994
9	24	National Conference on Soviet Jewry	1988-1995
9	25	National Food Drive	1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
10	1	Naymark, Ronald	1992-1995
10	2	Night of Murdered Poets	1985-1986
10	3	Notes	undated, 1985
10	4	Nudel, Ida	1986-1990
10	5	Office Budgets	1990
10	6	OVIR Monitoring Committee	1989
10	7	Pamyat	1988-1989
10	8	Parallel Seminar on Jewish Culture in the USSR -- Agenda and Minutes	1976
10	9	Petition to President Reagan	undated
10	10	Platt, Marshall	1985-1986
10	11	Poor Relatives	1988-1989
10	12	Presentations and Remarks by Waksberg	1984-1991
10	13	Presentations and Remarks [by Waksberg?]	undated
10	14	Press Club Glasnost	1987-1988
10	15	Prisoners	1987-1989
10	16	"Problems of the Soviet Jews Conference" Conference in Riga	1988
10	17	Project Freedom	1989
10	18	Project Kesher	1995
10	19	Radio Maccabee	undated
10	20	Refusenik Profiles	undated, 1986-1987
10	21	Riga, Latvia	1988-1989
10	22	Schapira, Morey	1983-1989
10	23	Separated Families Initiative	1987-1991
10	24	Sharansky, Natan	1978-1986, 1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
11	1	Sharansky Tribunal	1983-1986
11	2	Sherbourne, Michael	1995
11	3	Sister City Conference	1987
11	4	Sister City Program	1987-1990
11	5	South Africa	1978-1982
11	6	Soviet Jewry Education and Information Center	1986-1988
11	7	Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center	1987-1989
11	8	Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum	1988-1989
11	9	Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum	1994
11	10	Soviet Trends	1985-1989
11	11	State Secrets Project	1987-1988
11	12	Study Units on Jewish Customs and Traditions Proposal	undated
11	13	Talking Points	1985-1989
11	14	Tarnopolsky Family	1982-1987
11	15	Telecommunications and Email Issues	1991
11	16	Testimonials about UCSJ	1986-1995
11	17	Trade	1982-1985
11	18	Trips -- April	1990
11	19	Trips -- Jewish History Professional Trip to Poland and Ukraine	undated
11	20	Trips -- July	1990
11	21	Trips -- Preparation	undated, 1986
11	22	Trips -- Trip Reports	1985-1986
11	23	Trips -- Trip Reports	1987-1988
Box	Folder	Title	Date
12	1	Trips -- Trip Reports	1990-1992
12	2	Trips -- Trip Reports	undated
12	3	Trips -- UCSJ Trip Report	1991
12	4	Trips -- Waksberg Visa Application	1990
12	5	UCSJ -- Advertisements	1984-1985
12	6	UCSJ -- Alert	1986-1986
12	7	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1984
12	8	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1985
12	9	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1987
12	10	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1988
12	11	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1989
12	12	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1991
12	13	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1992
12	14	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1993
12	15	UCSJ -- Annual Meeting	1996
Box	Folder	Title	Date
13	1	UCSJ -- Board Meeting and Congressional Briefing	1989
13	2	UCSJ -- Board Meeting and Congressional Briefing	1991
13	3	UCSJ -- Board of Directors Correspondence	1988-1986
13	4	UCSJ -- Board of Directors Meetings	1984, 1989
13	5	UCSJ -- Commission of Inquiry -- Logistics	1986-1987
13	6	UCSJ -- Commission of Inquiry -- Proposal	1986
13	7	UCSJ -- Commission of Inquiry -- Public Hearing Proceedings	1987
13	8	UCSJ -- Commission of Inquiry -- Research	1987
13	9	UCSJ -- "Early Documents from the UCSJ Archives" Memo	1980
13	10	UCSJ -- Executive Committee	1985-1989
13	11	UCSJ -- Fax Network	1989
13	12	UCSJ -- Financials	1983-1994
13	13	UCSJ -- Foreign Policy Symposium	1992
13	14	UCSJ -- General	1985-1992
13	15	UCSJ -- Meeting Notes and Minutes	1984-1985
13	16	UCSJ -- Packets	Sep 1994
Box	Folder	Title	Date
14	1	UCSJ -- Packets	Jan-May 1996
14	2	UCSJ -- Packets	Jun-Aug 1996
14	3	UCSJ -- Press Releases	1984-1985
14	4	UCSJ -- Proposal for Policy Guidelines	1984-1985
14	5	UCSJ -- Statement of Policy on Emigration and the Treatment of Soviet Jews	1985
14	6	UCSJ -- Task Force on Policy	1985
14	7	UCSJ -- "UCSJ: An Assessment of Its Standing and Image as a Political Presence in Washington" by Rosenbaum and Associates	1985-1986
14	8	UCSJ -- Website	1995
14	9	United States Department of State	1987-1989
14	10	United States Emergency Committee for the Rescue of Soviet Jews	1991
14	11	United States-Soviet Postal Relations	1984-1985
14	12	United States-Soviet Summit	1985
14	13	United States-Soviet Summit	1986
14	14	United States-Soviet Summit	1987
14	15	VA'AD	1988-1990
14	16	Violence Documentation Project	1993
14	17	Wiesel, Elie	1992-1993
14	18	Women	1985-1989
14	19	Writings by Waksberg	1985-1991
14	20	Yad l'Yad Program	1990-1994
14	21	Yemen	1989
14	22	Youth Exchange	1989
14	23	Zionist Organization of America	1989

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Series III: Human Rights Bureaus in the Former Soviet Union, 1990-1996.
0.75 linear feet. Boxes 15-16.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
Scope and Content: Under the administrative umbrella of the UCSJ, Center for Jewish Renewal (CJR), as well as BACSJ, the Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights was founded and opened in Moscow in October 1990. In 1991 an emigration center opened in St. Petersburg. In 1992 the Ukrainian-American Bureau for the Protection of Human Rights was established in Kiev, and in 1993, human rights bureaus were opened in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This network of bureaus aimed to provide general legal and emigration assistance to Soviet Jews, to monitor anti-Semitism in the Former Soviet Union, and to educate Soviet Jews in Jewish traditions, culture and history in an effort to counteract decades of forced assimilation. Documents include correspondence, reports and notes. For more on the human rights bureaus, see 1990s correspondence in Series I, as well as the Center for Jewish Renewal folders (Box 6, Folders 8-9) in Series II and grant proposals that brought in funding for the bureaus in Series IV.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
15	1	General	1990-1993
15	2	General	1993-1994
15	3	Kazakhstan-American Bureau on Human Rights	1994-1996
15	4	Moscow Research Center for Human Rights	1993
15	5	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- Anti-Fascist Campaign	1995
15	6	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- Assessment of Soviet Compliance with the Vienna Concluding Document, Vol. 3 and 4	1991
15	7	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- Correspondence from Leonid Stonov	1992-1995
15	8	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- Correspondence from Maureen Greenwood	1995
15	9	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- Correspondence from Maureen Greenwood and Alexander Lieberman	1995
15	10	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- Correspondence from Yuri Semenovsky	1992
15	11	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- General	1990-1992
15	12	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- PIK Publishing	1993
15	13	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- Reports and Budget	1991-1994
15	14	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- "Russia Inside" Emails	1992
15	15	Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights -- Russian Political Review	1992
Box	Folder	Title	Date
16	1	Ukrainian-American Bureau for the Protection of Human Rights	1992-1994
16	2	Ukrainian-American Bureau for the Protection of Human Rights	1992-1994
16	3	Ukrainian-American Bureau for the Protection of Human Rights	1994-1995

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Series IV: Fundraising and Projects, 1987-1996.
0.75 linear feet. Boxes 16-18.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
Scope and Content: By 1995, Waksberg was serving as the Director of Development and Communication of the UCSJ, and the materials in this series appear to have been generated or collected in connection with that position. The series is comprised of grant proposals, materials created during preparation for those grants, progress reports for the funding agencies, drafts for mail and phone solicitations, correspondence and notes.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
16	4	American Legal Consortium	1994
16	5	Anti-Fascist Coalition and Public Campaign	1994
16	6	Barnett, Harvey	1995
16	7	Daniels, June and Ron	1995
16	8	Eurasia Foundation	1994
16	9	Ideas	1994
16	10	Jackson Foundation	1994-1995
16	11	Koret Foundation	1987-1995
16	12	Levin, Ariel	1995
16	13	Levinson Foundation	1990
16	14	Levinson Foundation	1993-1995
16	15	Lviv Bureau Proposal	1995
16	1	Mail and Phone Solicitations	1994-1995
16	2	Meals on Wheels for the Elderly in Lviv, Ukraine	1994
16	3	Moriah Fund	1995
16	4	National Endowment for Democracy	1989-1995
16	5	National Endowment for Democracy	1993-1994
16	6	National Endowment for Democracy	1995
16	7	Programs, Goals and Budgets	1990-1995
16	8	Rosenberg Foundation	1995
16	9	Stonov, Leonid	1993-1994
16	10	UCSJ Monitor and Donor Base	1993-1996
16	11	UCSJ's Financial Crisis	1995
16	12	USAID	1993-1995
16	13	Yad L'Yad Program	1994-1995
Box	Folder	Title	Date
17	1	Yad L'Yad Program -- Levinson Foundation Report	1995

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Series V: Clippings, 1980-1995.
0.5 linear feet. Box 18.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Scope and Content: Waksberg was sent and collected clippings from local, national and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters and scholarly journals. They cover BACSJ and UCSJ’s activities and involvements in the Bay Area, nationally and internationally, as well as general topics, such as anti-Semitism, Soviet Jews and general events and conditions in the USSR. Clippings about Waksberg himself are in the last folder of the series.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
17	2	Clippings	1980-1981
17	3	Clippings	1984
17	4	Clippings	1985
17	5	Clippings	1986
17	6	Clippings	1987
17	7	Clippings	1988
17	8	Clippings	1989
17	9	Clippings	1990
17	10	Clippings	1991
17	11	Clippings	1992
17	12	Clippings	1993
17	13	Clippings	1994
17	14	Clippings	1995
17	15	Clippings	undated
17	16	Clippings about Waksberg	1986-1991

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Series VI: Photographs, undated, 1986-1995.
1 folder.
Scope and Content: Photographs of individuals in this series include David Waksberg, Selma Light, Hanna Liberman, Alec and Galina Zelichenok, Natalia Khassin, Lev Gorodetsky and Pavel Liburkin from approximately 1986 through 1990. Also there are three rolls of negatives and contact sheets of a 1986 tribute to Andrei Sakharov at San Francisco City Hall, as well as a dozen photos of an anti-Semitic, pro-fascist rally in the FSU in 1995.
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	7	Photographs	undated, 1986-1995

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