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Jews, Soviet

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:

Partners of Conscience - Lists, 1974

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Identifier: B093.01.0005.0003
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Most of the records consist of letters, educational materials, bulletins and published newspaper accounts of activities by world-wide, national and local groups on behalf of Soviet Jews. Rhoda Friedman collected most of this material. The Records also have scrapbooks about Lillian Hoffman.

Dates: 1974

POC/ Azbel, David, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0026
Abstract

Fact sheet and materials related to David Azbel who was a Jewish dissident and political prisoner in the Soviet Union.

Dates: 1968-1978

POC/ Beilina, Dina, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0027
Abstract

Fact sheet and materials related to Dina Beilina, a Jewish Soviet disident imprissoned by the Soviet Union. In 1978, after seven years, Dina Beilina, considered the USSR’s leading woman Jewish refusnik, received an exit visa to Israel.

Dates: 1968-1978

POC/ Davidovich, Ephim, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0028
Abstract

Fact sheet and materials related to Ephim Davidovich, a Jewish prisoner of conscience.

Dates: 1968-1978

POC/ Panov, Valery, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0042
Abstract

Various materials related to Valery Panov. Valery Panova and his wife Galina performed at the Kirov ballet in Leningrad until they applied for exit visas to Israel in 1972. They were expelled from the Kirov, imprisoned briefly, and allowed to leave Russia for Israel in 1974.

Dates: 1968-1978

POC/Pénson, Boris, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0032
Abstract Materials related to Boris Pénson. Known for poster art, he and his family moved to Riga, Latvia, in 1950 where he graduated from an art school. In 1967 he decided to emigrate to Israel but was refused a visa. After endless requests and refusals, he joined the Dymshits group which planned the hijacking of an aircraft to escape from the Soviet Union. In June 1970, together with other members of the group, he was arrested by the KGB at the Smolny airport. In December 1970, at the "First...
Dates: 1968-1978

POC/Poltinnikov, Isaac, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0033
Abstract Materials related to Dr. Isaac Poltinnikov. Dr. Poltinnikov was an eye surgeon at Novosibirsk Medical University when he sought permission to immigrate to Israel. He was dismissed from the university and imprisoned on and off. After seven years of harrassment, his wife and daughter Victoria became paranoid and refused to believe that they had finally received permission to emigrate. After Isaac Pollinnikov joined his daughter Eleanor in Israel, his wife starved and his daughter Victoria...
Dates: 1968-1978

POC/Tiemkin, Marina, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0035
Abstract

Materials related to prisoner of conscience Mariana Tiemkin.

Dates: 1968-1978

POC/Zalmanson, Sylva, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0037
Abstract Materials related to Sylva Zalmanson. Sylva Zalmanson graduated Riga Polytechnic University in 1968 and worked as an engineer. Repeatedly requesting and being denied exit visas to leave the Soviet Union for Israel, Zalmanson and her husband Eduard Kuznetsov became members of a group of activists who came up with a plan to escape. The plan was called "Operation Wedding" or the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair. The group of 16 would buy all the tickets to a local flight from a small airport...
Dates: 1968-1978

Poets - Yeutushenko, 1968-1978

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Identifier: B093.01.0004.0022
Abstract

Various materials, newspaper clippings and articles regarding the poet Yevgeny Yeutushenko. Yeutushenko was born in Siberia and became famous for his poem "Babi Yar," written in 1961. He was careful with his criticism of the Soviet Union and never ran afoul of the Soviet authorities. In his later years he taught at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa.

Dates: 1968-1978