Charlotte Gerber Turner Papers
Scope and Content Note
The papers of Charlotte Gerber Turner represent the activities of the American Soviet Jewry Movement activist. The collection contains reports on visiting Soviet Jews during Mrs. Turner’s visits to the U.S.S.R., accompanied by a large number of photos and slides taken during those trips. The materials also include audio recordings from events related to the Soviet Jewry Movement, including the Second World Conference of Jewish Communities on Soviet Jewry in 1976, a t-shirt, hat and scarf commemorating the Soviet Jewry Summit in Washington, D. C., metal bracelets stamped with names of Refuseniks, a collection of commemorative buttons and four posters.
The papers of Charlotte Gerber Turner also contain notes, photographs, slides and audio recordings related to her work on behalf of Ethiopian Jewry.
The documents include audiocassettes, commemorative bracelets, hats, scarf, t-shirt and pins, notes, photographs and slides, posters and trip reports.
Dates
- undated, 1976-1977, 1980, 1985, 1987
Creator
- Turner, Charlotte Gerber (Person)
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 Charlotte Gerber Turner 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.
Charlotte Gerber Turner is a community activist who participated in the American Soviet Jewry Movement and served as board member of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry in 1977 through 1982.
Charlotte Gerber Turner Papers also contain materials reflecting her involvement in the efforts on behalf of the Ethiopian Jewish community.
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet (2 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The papers of Charlotte Gerber Turner represent the activities of the American Soviet Jewry Movement activist. The collection contains reports on visiting Soviet Jews during Mrs. Turner’s visits to U.S.S.R., accompanied by a large number of photos and slides taken during those trips. The materials also include audio recordings from the events related to the Soviet Jewry Movement, including the Second World Conference of Jewish Communities on Soviet Jewry in 1976; a t-shirt, hat and scarf commemorating the Soviet Jewry Summit in Washington, D. C., metal bracelets stamped with names of Refuseniks, a collection of commemorative buttons and 4 posters. The papers of Charlotte Gerber Turner also contain notes, photographs, slides and audio recordings related to her work on behalf of Ethiopian Jewry.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into a single series.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Charlotte Gerber Turner in 2010.
Digitization Note
The buttons, oversize posters, and cassettes in box 1 folder 6, with the exception of microcassette 2, were digitized and made available in their entirety. Microcassette 1 was digitized, but the audio is of very poor quality.
- Antisemitism
- Audiocassettes
- Commemorative jewelry
- Emigration and immigration
- Ethiopia
- Hats
- Human rights
- Jews -- Soviet Union -- Politics and government
- Jews, Ethiopian
- Jews, Soviet
- National Conference on Soviet Jewry (U.S.)
- Notes (documents)
- Photographs
- Pins
- Political prisoners
- Posters
- Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Refugees
- Refuseniks
- Reports
- Scarves (costume accessories)
- Slides (photographs)
- Soviet Union
- T-shirts
- United States
- Title
- Guide to the Charlotte Gerber Turner Papers, undated, 1976-1977, 1980, 1985, 1987 *P-907
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Andrey Filimonov
- Date
- © 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Revision Statements
- March 2017: Links were added to digitized material by Nicole Greenhouse.
- November 2020: RJohnstone: post-ASpace migration cleanup.
Repository Details
Part of the American Jewish Historical Society Repository
