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Creator:  Weiss, Avraham ; Cohen, Pamela S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Avi Weiss and Pamela Cohen broadside concerning Mikhail Gorbachev  
 Dates:  1991 
 Call No:  1993.006 
 Abstract:  The broadside consists of a statement issued by Rabbi Avi Weiss and Pamela Cohen expressing criticism of Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law for granting Mikhail Gorbachev its first Democracy Award in 1992. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union | Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration 
Creator:  Garber, AkivaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Akiva Garber Soviet Jewry collection  
 Dates:  1970-1990 
 Call No:  2007.005 
 Abstract:  Steve/Akiva Garber was active in the Yale University chapter of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) during the 1970s. After leaving Yale, he became active in the Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry, which helped many Soviet Jews escape and resettle in Israel. The collection consists of reports, newspaper clippings, publications, correspondence, notes and sound recordings relating to the struggle for Soviet Jewry in the United States and Israel, and especially relating to the Yale chapter of the SSSJ. 
 Size:  2.0 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union | Jews -- Soviet Union | Refuseniks | Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration | Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations | Students -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies 
Creator:  Student Struggle for Soviet JewryRequires cookie*
 Title:  Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Records  
 Dates:  1956-2010, 2017; Bulk Dates: 1964-1991 
 Call No:  1993.099 
 Abstract:  Grassroots national student organization formed by Jacob Birnbaum in 1964 to oppose the persecution of Soviet Jews and promote their right to emigrate freely from the Soviet Union. Collection contains correspondence, questionnaires and statistical information on refuseniks, administrative and financial records, press releases and publicity material, newsletters, clippings, photographs, publications, reports, reel-to-reel tapes, audiocassettes, videotapes, CDs, and buttons, bumper stickers, posters, uniforms and other ephemera. 
 Size:  Approximately 266 linear feet (351 manuscript boxes, 10 record cartons, 1 map box, 17 flat storage boxes, 13 exhibit panels, and 42 artifact boxes.) 
 Subjects:  Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union | Jews -- Soviet Union -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century | Soviet Jewry Action Newsletter | Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration | Student movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies | Students -- New York (State) -- New York -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies 
Creator:  Kenvin, Helene SchwartzRequires cookie*
 Title:  Helene Schwartz Kenvin collection on Jews in the Caucasus and Central Asian Republics of the Former Soviet Union  
 Dates:  1984-1999 
 Call No:  1999.099 
 Abstract:  The Caucasus Network (CN) is an organization founded by Helene Schwartz Kenvin in 1984 that provides aid to and advocates on behalf of Jews in the Caucasus and Central Asian Republics. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, the CN's main activity became to assist residents of the Caucasus and Central Asia republics in obtaining refugee-status admission to the United States. The collection consists of the CN's administrative records, individual case files, and reference resources from the period 1984-1999. 
 Size:  45.5 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Caucasus -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century | Caucasus -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Jews -- Caucasus -- History | Jews -- Caucasus -- Social life and customs | Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union | Jews -- Soviet Union -- Migrations -- History | Jews -- United States -- Charities | Refugees, Jewish -- Soviet Union | Refugees, Jewish -- United States | Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration | Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | United States -- Emigration and immigration | United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 
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 Title:  Leon H. Charney Collection  
 Dates:  1912-2016; Bulk Dates: 1965-2016 
 Call No:  2017.006 
 Abstract:  Digital collection of materials documenting the life and activities of Leon Charney, a lawyer, author, businessman and philanthropist who hosted a public affairs program on cable television for more than 20 years. Charney also served as an advisor to various government leaders, and as an expert in Middle East affairs, was called upon to function as a backdoor liaison during the negotiations between Israel and Egypt leading to the 1979 Peace Treaty signed by the two countries. 
 Size:  3155 digital files and one small box; 141 GB of image and audio/video files 
 Subjects:  Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1973-1993 | Cantors (Judaism) -- United States | Egypt--Foreign relations--Israel | Israel -- Foreign relations -- United States | Israel -- Politics and government | Israel--Foreign relations--Egypt | Jewish authors -- United States | Jewish businesspeople -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York | Jewish philanthropists | Jews -- Persecutions -- Soviet Union | Jews -- United States -- Politics and government | Middle East--Foreign relations--United States | Songs, Hebrew | Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration | Synagogue music | United States -- Foreign relations -- Israel | United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century | United States--Foreign relations--Middle East