Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Records, 1956-2010
Approximately 265 linear feet (351 manuscript boxes, 10 record cartons, 1 map box, 17 flat storage boxes, 13 exhibit panels, and 42 artifact boxes.) 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. The material pertains primarily to the emigration of Jews from the USSR. There is also documentation on the situation of Soviet Jewish immigrants in Israel and the U.S. Most, but not all, of the material has been filed. Finding aid available: http://libfindaids.yu.edu:8082/xtf/view?docId=ead/SSSJ/SSSJ.xml;query=;brand=default
