The collection contains materials created and collected by Alexander Smukler related his activities as a Refusenik and the production and distribution of underground publishing in the Soviet Union.
The collection includes photographs and documents of Natan Sharansky, and the many people he interacted with as a dissident and activist during the Soviet Jewry Movement.
The National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) was created in June 1971 as an umbrella organization; representing the effort of the main Jewish communal organizations to aid Soviet Jews.
Materials created by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet (GNYCSJ), a regional umbrella organization focused on Soviet Jewry Movement, for advocacy, education, and institutional documentation.
Personal archive of former refuseniks Leonid and Elizabeth Reine, who immigrated from the Soviet Union in 1976, first to Israel, and in 1981 to the United States.
Contemporary video testimonies recorded with former participants in the movement.
“Russia Reports” was a radio radio service provided to the Jewish community by the American Jewish Committee (AJC). The broadcasts consisted of interviews with academics, journalists, travelers to Russia, or community figures.
