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General Jewish Council Records

Collection

Identifier: I-170

Abstract

The General Jewish Council was an umbrella organization founded by the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith, and Jewish Labor Committee in order to coordinate their rights defense activities.

The bulk of the records in this collection date between from 1938-1944, the active years of the Council. Materials consist primarily of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and reports.

Dates: 1934-1947

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

Records of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal

Collection

Identifier: I-505, I-505A

Abstract

The collection documents the activities of a human rights non-government organization on behalf of Soviet Jewry and Jews in the Former Soviet Union. Organized by Harold Light in San Francisco in 1967, the group worked to bring the Soviet Jewry issue to national and international attention. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, case files, publications, newspaper clippings, card files of Refuseniks, subject files, audio/visual materials, and information on other Soviet Jewry and interreligious organizations. Also included are materials relating to Soviet Jewish emigration, Cold War relations, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and human rights conditions in Russia and the former Soviet republics.

Dates: undated, 1952, 1954-1999

Found in: American Jewish Historical Society

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Subject: Antisemitism X
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Subject: Antisemitism X
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General Jewish Council Records

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