The collection contains materials created and collected by Alexander Smukler related his activities as a Refusenik and the production and distribution of underground publishing in the Soviet Union.
The collection includes photographs and documents of Natan Sharansky, and the many people he interacted with as a dissident and activist during the Soviet Jewry Movement.
The National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) was created in June 1971 as an umbrella organization; representing the effort of the main Jewish communal organizations to aid Soviet Jews.
Materials created by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet (GNYCSJ), a regional umbrella organization focused on Soviet Jewry Movement, for advocacy, education, and institutional documentation.
Contemporary video testimonies recorded with former participants in the movement.
“Russia Reports” was a radio radio service provided to the Jewish community by the American Jewish Committee (AJC). The broadcasts consisted of interviews with academics, journalists, travelers to Russia, or community figures.
