The Soviet Jewry Movement (circa 1963-1990) was a worldwide effort to obtain freedom for Jews in the Soviet Union to practice their religion without state persecution or discrimination or to emigrate to Israel, the United States or elsewhere to seek the blessings of freedom, and to pursue lives of their own choosing.

The American Jewish Historical Society has established its Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement to help assure that the story of the role played by Americans of all faiths in that Movement will be collected and preserved so that future generations will be familiar with, and inspired by, their achievements.

Kenneth J. Bialkin Chairman, Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
Henry Feingold Chair, Academic Advisory Council
Jerry Goodman, Senior Consultant
Lyn Slome, Director of NEH Project
Mimi Bowling, Consulting Director, Archive and Oral History
Michael Feldberg, Ph.D. Director of Research

For more information about this project and other AJHS initiatives, please visit www.ajhs.org.

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