North American Jewish Students' Network
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Jewish Student Organizations Collection
The collection contains the periodicals of, and relating to, many Jewish student organizations.
Morey Schapira Papers
Papers of Morey Schapira reflect the work of the prominent activist of the American Soviet Jewry movement in the years 1965-1993. The collection includes details on Mr. Schapira’s leadership role with organizations Action for Soviet Jewry, the Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. The collection contains files on many other groups, individuals and topics.
Records of the Jewish Student Press Service
Founded in 1970 as a constituent organization of the North American Jewish Students’ Appeal, the Jewish Student Press Service (JSPS) served as a provider of student-written feature articles and news distributor for the Jewish student and young adult publishers in North America and Israel. This collection documents the activities of the JSPS from its founding to 1987 and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, flyers, and unpublished articles. The majority of the collection is made up of mailing packets, later known as Jewish Press Features.
Records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal
The records of the North American Jewish Students Appeal (NAJSA or APPEAL) contains documents on two levels of concern: those documents dealing with the NAJSA as a student-run organization promoting Jewish identity among college-aged youth; and those documents dealing with the APPEAL as a fundraising organization for several well-known student constituent organizations. The Constituents were: the Jewish Student Press Service, Lights in Action, the North American Jewish Students Network, the Progressive Zionist Caucus, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Yavneh Religious Students Organization, and Yugntruf Youth for Yiddish. Documents include correspondence, financial records, minutes, press releases, information on grants awarded to student organizations for programming and publishing, student journals and newspapers, photographs, and ephemera.
Ruth Abusch-Magder Papers
This collection contains the papers of Ruth Abusch-Magder, mostly documenting her Jewish feminist and activist work as a high school and college student from 1984-1992.
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- Correspondence 3
- Student movements 3
- Clippings (information artifacts) 2
- Jewish college students 2
- Jews, Soviet 2
- Minutes (administrative records) 2
- Americans 1
- Antisemitism 1
- Articles 1
- CD-ROMs 1
- Canada 1
- College publications 1
- Conferences 1
- Demonstrations 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism 1
- Financial records 1
- Fliers (printed matter) 1
- Handbooks 1
- Human rights 1 + ∧ less