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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 in the United States.

The collection holds more than 40 samizdat periodicals documenting the experiences of Soviet Jews, publications from the Library Aliya series, and materials on Jewish culture, literature, history, and religion. Supplemental materials include contemporary news clippings.

Periodical titles include: 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. The collection also includes samizdat editions of literary works, such as copies of Exodus by Leon Uris.

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Informational bulletin : [by] the union of former Ministry of Radio Technology workers, participants in the refusniks' law seminar, Vol. 1
Informational bulletin : [by] the union of former Ministry of Radio Technology workers, participants in the refusniks' law seminar, Vol. 1
Periodical
Maker: L. Gonorovskii; S. Dikii
ID: 2021.035.001.001
Date Made: [circa 1980s]; 1980s
Draft of Manifesto by the Organization
Draft of Manifesto by the Organization "Jewish Women Against Refusals" circa 1988
Manifestoes; notes
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2021.035.001.002
Date Made: [circa 1988]; 1980s
Drafts of 2 articles about Jewish culture:
Drafts of 2 articles about Jewish culture: "Jewish Holidays" and "Pages of History", fall 1988
Articles; notes
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2021.035.001.003
Date Made: 1988; 1980s
What Do You Blame the Jews For?
What Do You Blame the Jews For?
Articles
Maker: Samuil Zil'berg; Vitalii Krichevskii
ID: 2021.035.001.004
Date Made: 1988-10-29; 1980s
What Do You Blame the Jews For? (
What Do You Blame the Jews For? ( "Soviet Youth", Organ of the Central Committee, Latvia, October 29, 1988)
Articles
Maker: Samuil Zil'berg; Vitalii Krichevskii
ID: 2021.035.001.005
Date Made: 1988-10-29; 1980s
Anonymous letters
Anonymous letters
Articles
Maker: Ivan Stel'makh
ID: 2021.035.001.006
Date Made: 1988-11-19; 1980s
Futile Attempts at Love, or How Comrade A. M. Norinskii decided to
Futile Attempts at Love, or How Comrade A. M. Norinskii decided to "help" "Pamyat"
Articles
Maker: I. Lisochkin; I. Potemkina
ID: 2021.035.001.007
Date Made: 1988-11-21; 1980s
Letter to the editors of
Letter to the editors of "Sovetish Geimland" magazine from Efim Gokhberg with an attached open letter to the deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Lev Borisovich Shapiro, December 1, 1988
Correspondence
Maker: Efim Gokhberg
ID: 2021.035.001.009
Date Made: 1988-12-01; 1980s
Copies of correspondences between S. G. Lokshina and A. Ostal'skii, October, 1988
Copies of correspondences between S. G. Lokshina and A. Ostal'skii, October, 1988
Correspondence
Maker: S. G. Lokshina; Andrei Ostal'skii
ID: 2021.035.001.011
Date Made: 1988-10; 1980s
Letter to the editor of the newspaper Dnepr vechernii (Evening Dnieper) from V. M. Rabkin
Letter to the editor of the newspaper Dnepr vechernii (Evening Dnieper) from V. M. Rabkin
Correspondence
Maker: Rabkin V. M.
ID: 2021.035.001.012
Informational bulletin : [by] the union of former Ministry of Radio Technology workers, participants in the refusniks' law seminar, Vol. 2
Informational bulletin : [by] the union of former Ministry of Radio Technology workers, participants in the refusniks' law seminar, Vol. 2
Periodical
Maker: L. Gonorovskii; S. Dikii; Rtishchev, S.
ID: 2021.035.001.013
Letter from Naum Rafailovich Berman to M. S. Gorbachev, November 10, 1988
Letter from Naum Rafailovich Berman to M. S. Gorbachev, November 10, 1988
Correspondence
Maker: Berman
ID: 2021.035.001.014
Date Made: 1988-11-10; 1980s
Charter of the Society for Jewish Consciousness Revival TKUM
Charter of the Society for Jewish Consciousness Revival TKUM
Text (documents)
Maker: [Obshchestvo vozrozhdenĭi︠a︡ evreĭskogo samosoznanii︠a︡ "Tkuma"]
ID: 2021.035.001.015
Draft of the open letter from the initiative group for organization of Jewish culture society, October 30, 1988
Draft of the open letter from the initiative group for organization of Jewish culture society, October 30, 1988
Text (documents)
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2021.035.001.016
Date Made: 1988-10-30; 1980s
Copy of the correspondence from IU. M. Vorontsov to E. B. Sukholutskii, September 7, 1988
Copy of the correspondence from IU. M. Vorontsov to E. B. Sukholutskii, September 7, 1988
Correspondence
Maker: Yu. Vorontsov
ID: 2021.035.001.017
Date Made: 1988-09-07; 1980s
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