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Collection Guide: Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement

Overview of the individual archival collections and library materials that make up the AASJM.

Ukranian-Jewish demonstration in front of the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, 1981 (I-495, AJHS)

Mission Statement

The mission of the ASJM Oral History Project is to record, transcribe and preserve personal narratives from the American Soviet Jewry Movement. Through interviews with participants, the project aims to capture this period of American Jewish history and its great impact on individuals, politics and the movement of Jews to escape oppression in the Former Soviet Union for lives of their choosing in the US, Israel and elsewhere.

The archived interviews resulting from the Oral History Project are collected in the American Soviet Jewry Movement Oral Histories Collection, (I-548) and have been digitized in their entirety.

Interview Links

Below is a list of the oral history interviews produced for inclusion into the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement and direct links to their audio and video files. If you would like more information on these files (including biographies on the interviewees) please view the collection's finding aid.
 
AUDIO INTERVIEWS
Rabbi David Hill May 7, 2008
Charlotte Jacobson March 19, 2008
Joel and Adele Sandberg March 18, 2008

 

 
 
 
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Joel Ackerman July 7, 2014
Pamela Cohen July 20, 2010
Sanford A. Gradinger May 13, 2010
Lawrence I. Lerner December 17, 2013
Leah Lieberman May 12, 2009
Alan Pesky December 8, 2011
Morey Schapira October 27, 2010
Philip Spiegel November 19, 2010
Aba and Ida Taratuta August 27, 2009
Rabbi Nosson Vershubsky    February 7, 2013
Joseph Yanich October 10, 2013