Protest and social movements

Fact sheet and materials related to Raiza Palatnick, who was a 35 year old Jewish librariian in Odessa, Ukraine who was imprisoned for distributing materials "slanderous" to the Soviet Union. Her confinement in isolation for five months began The 35's or Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry in 1971 in London, England. Raiza Palatnick was released from prison after two years and allowed to immigrate to Israel.

Richard Wihera (BA, 1973) was a Mass Communications undergraduate during the Woodstock West protest in 1970 working as a reporter with DUTV, a closed circuit television station for the University of Denver campus run by the Mass Communications department. Wihera had a press pass and this allowed him to take photographs sometimes behind police lines. The collection consists of slides of photographs taken at the University of Denver during the Woostock West protest.

Draft copy of Professor Gilbert's monograph "Say Her Name," described as "a prose-poem diary of mt journey to the West Bank interspersed qirh Israel-US mutual police training and the summer of protest in 2020."

Draft copy of Professor Gilbert's monograph, "Say Her Name."

Various materials (slides, buttons, notes) related to Soviet Jewry.

Newspaper clippings related to the Soviet Jewish Dissident Protest.

Materials related to Soviet Prisoners of Conscience.

Materials related to Soviet Prisoners of Conscience.

Miscellaneous articles and notes, transcripts of Walter Cronkite news reports.

Correspondence and miscellaneous material related to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jews. The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry was launched at Columbia University in 1964 to enlist students to advocate for Soviet Jews. The students led large protest marches, pushed for legislation to aid Soviet Jews, and created educational materials. The Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry was the "adult" counterpart to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jews.