Jack Forgash Papers
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes materials covering projects and events of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and Brooklyn Coalition for Soviet Jewry. It also covers the mutually supportive relationship of the Soviet Jewry movement organizations and Senator Henry M. Jackson during his presidential campaign of 1976. The materials include correspondence, memoranda, photographs, newsletters, brochures and clippings.
The collection consists of one manuscript box.
Dates
- undated, 1973-1979, 2004
Access Restrictions
The collection is open to all researchers, except items that may be restricted due to their fragility, or privacy.
Use Restrictions
No permission is required to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection, as long as the usage is scholarly, educational, and non-commercial. For inquiries about other usage, please contact the Director of Collections and Engagement at mmeyers@ajhs.org.
For reference questions, please email: inquiries@cjh.org
Historical Note
The Papers of Jack Forgash 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 the most influential Movement 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.
The collection includes materials covering projects and events of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Brooklyn Coalition for Soviet Jewry. It also covers the mutually supportive relationship of the Soviet Jewry movement organizations and Senator Henry M. Jackson during his presidential campaign of 1976. The materials include correspondence, memoranda, photographs, newsletters, brochures and clippings.
Extent
1 Manuscript Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains papers of Jack Forgash, an activist in the American Soviet Jewry movement. Forgash held leadership positions in the Brooklyn Coalition for Soviet Jewry and the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry during the 1970s, and co-chaired the Jackson for President Committee during the presidential campaign of Senator Henry M. Jackson in 1976. The materials include correspondence, memoranda, photographs, brochures and news clippings.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into a single series.
Physical Location
Located in AJHS New York, NY
Acquisition Information
Donated by Jack Forgash in 2008.
- Title
- Guide to the Jack Forgash Papers, undated, 1973-1979, 2004 *P-968
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Andrey Filimonov
- Date
- © 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
- Sponsor
- Digitization of the Papers of Jack Forgash (P-968) was made possible through a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Revision Statements
- March 2015: Added dao links by Eric Fritzler.
- November 2020: RJohnstone: post-ASpace migration cleanup.
Repository Details
Part of the American Jewish Historical Society Repository
