Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records
Collection
Identifier: B093
Abstract
Soviet Jews who wanted to emigrate from the Soviet Union were known as "Refuseniks." American Jewish students formed the Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) in 1964 and the American Jewish Committee on Soviet Jewry (AJCSI) was also organized that year. Rabbi Samuel Adelman, rabbi of the BMH synagogue, spoke at Temple Emanuel and urged the liberal congregation to help Soviet Jews. Rabbi Raymond Zwerin, Sheldon Steinhauser, and Lillian Hoffman formed what became the Colorado Committee of Concern...
Dates:
1929-1996; Majority of material found within 1968-1978
Hispano-Crypto Jews Reference Collection
Collection
Identifier: B389
Abstract
Two books on Hispano-Crypto Jews by Anthony Garcia: "Portal of Light: Kabbalah Emmanuel and the Church" (2014) and "Shared Lives, Twin Sun" (2017). One book by Norman Finkelstein: "The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World" (1989).
Dates:
Publication: 1989-2017
Loggie (Eulogia) Carrasco Papers
Collection
Identifier: B320
Abstract
Collection contains books, a copper etching, and, personal papers related to Loggie Carrasco from 1929 through 1977.
Dates:
1929-1977