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Alexander Smukler Collection      

The Alexander Smukler Collection contains materials created and collected by Alexander Smukler (b. 1960) related to: the production and distribution of samizdat in the Soviet Union, Smukler’s activities as a Refusenik, and his continued activism based out of the United States. The collection contains over 40 different samizdat periodicals (highlighting the plight of Soviet Jews), samizdat publications distributed as part of the Library Aliya series, samizdat publications regarding Jewish culture (literature, history, religion, etc.) and supplemental materials such as contemporary news clippings. Some of the included periodical titles are: Evrei v SSSR (Jews in the USSR), Tarbut Kul’tura (Tarbut Culture), Evrei v Sovremennom Mire (Jews in the Contemporary World), Leningradskii Evreiskii Al’manakh (Leningrad Jewish Almanac), Evreiskii Ezhegodnik (Jewish Annual), Informatsionnyi Byulleten’ po Problemam Evreiskoi Repatriatsii i Kul’tury (Information Bulletin on Issues of Jewish Repatriation and Culture), Shalom, and others, in addition to samizdat editions of literary works (for example, copies of Exodus by Leon Uris).

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'Tkum's' March of Life
'Tkum's' March of Life
Articles; drafts (documents)
Maker: Lev Zlatkin
ID: 2021.035.001.033
Date Made: 1988; 1980s
So, the choice had been made
So, the choice had been made
Articles
Maker: E. Markov
ID: 2021.035.001.034
Date Made: 1988-09; 1980s
Jew - he's a person too!
Jew - he's a person too!
Articles
Maker: Meir Kharev
ID: 2021.035.001.035
Date Made: [circa 1987]; 1980s
"Our mail" in the Jewish Information Bulletin, response from the head of the agitation and propaganda department of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU to Yu. A. Vinogradov. September 20, 1988
Articles; drafts (documents)
Maker: V. Koretskii
ID: 2021.035.001.036
Date Made: 1988-09-20; 1980s
Letters to the founders of the EKA (Jewish Cultural Association)
Letters to the founders of the EKA (Jewish Cultural Association)
Correspondence
Maker: A. Shlaen; Nataliya Yukhneva; Aron Bronislava
ID: 2021.035.001.037
Date Made: 1988-09-10/1988-09-11; 1980s
News from the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics No. 31, Moscow, August 3, 1988
News from the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics No. 31, Moscow, August 3, 1988
Periodical
Maker: A. Gromyko; T. Menteshashvili; [Verkhovnyĭ Sovet SSSR]
ID: 2021.035.001.039
Date Made: 1988-08-03; 1980s
"Sodom's lies and the issue of trust between ethnicities" in People and Earth No. 5, Moscow, 1986
Articles
Maker: Lior Amp
ID: 2021.035.001.040
Date Made: 1986; 1980s
About the Leningrad events: Iosif Latinskii reports... , March 25, 1988
About the Leningrad events: Iosif Latinskii reports... , March 25, 1988
Articles; drafts (documents)
Maker: I. Latinskii
ID: 2021.035.001.042
Date Made: 1988-03-25; 1980s
Poor relatives are not just in Moscow, circa 1988
Poor relatives are not just in Moscow, circa 1988
Articles; drafts (documents)
Maker: Lyudmila Markova
ID: 2021.035.001.043
Date Made: [circa 1988]; 1980s
"The tours of self-made artists" by E. Markov, Leningrad, March 26, 1988
Articles
Maker: E. Markov
ID: 2021.035.001.044
Date Made: 1988-03-26; 1980s
Open letter to the chariman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Gromyko A. A.
Open letter to the chariman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Gromyko A. A.
Text (documents); drafts (documents)
Maker: Markov E. A.; Sheiba L. S.; Budnyatskii M. M.
ID: 2021.035.001.045
About Antisemitism
About Antisemitism
Articles
Maker: M. Gor'kiy
ID: 2021.035.001.046
Date Made: 1929; 1920s; [circa 1980s]; 1980s
Draft of article
Draft of article "Olga Latisnkaya tells..." by Latisnkaya Ol'ga Viktorovna, Leningrad, April 12, 1988
Text (documents); interviews
Maker: Latinskaya Ol'ga Viktorovna
ID: 2021.035.001.047
Date Made: 1988-04-12; 1980s
In a duel with untruth (about the trial in Chisinau)
In a duel with untruth (about the trial in Chisinau)
Drafts (documents); articles
Maker: A. Torpusman; Unknown
ID: 2021.035.001.048
Date Made: 1987-11; 1980s
Materials from column
Materials from column "Our Mail" (draft) and statement to Gorbachev and Reagan (draft), April 1988
Letters (correspondence); drafts (documents); statements
Maker: B. Gul'ko; Unknown
ID: 2021.035.001.049
Date Made: 1988-04-11/1988-04-12; [circa May 1988]; 1980s
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