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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