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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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... Voice : In general, quotas are not needed
... Voice : In general, quotas are not needed
Transcripts; drafts (documents)
Maker: Chlenov
ID: 2021.035.002.282
Hello, Rama!
Hello, Rama!
Letters (correspondence)
Maker: I. Korman
ID: 2021.035.002.284
Draft table of contents
Draft table of contents
Drafts (documents); notes (documents)
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2021.035.002.285
Date Made: [circa 1989]; 1980s
Shalom : sociopolitical and literary magazine of the Jewish Culture Association, No. 6, 1990
Shalom : sociopolitical and literary magazine of the Jewish Culture Association, No. 6, 1990
Periodicals
Maker: M. Gorelik; Ėĭtan Finkelʹshteĭn; A. Laiks; D. Markish; N. Zubkova
ID: 2021.035.002.286
Date Made: 1990; 1990s
Chernobyl, Nikolay Danilov and David Goldfarb
Chernobyl, Nikolay Danilov and David Goldfarb
Drafts (documents)
Maker: [Armand Hammer]; [Neil Lydon]
ID: 2021.035.002.288
Date Made: [circa 1988/1989]; 1980s
Prologue
Prologue
Texts (documents)
Maker: [Armand Hammer]; [Neil Lydon]
ID: 2021.035.002.289
Date Made: [circa 1988/1989]; 1980s
Cast off
Cast off
Texts (documents)
Maker: I. Bashevits-Zinger; A. Kazarnovskii
ID: 2021.035.002.290
Date Made: [circa 1987/1988]; 1980s
If not higher
If not higher
Texts (documents)
Maker: A. Kazarnovskii; I. L. Peretz
ID: 2021.035.002.291
Date Made: [circa 1987/1988]; 1980s
The story about old Kulebyakin, Mila the whining horse, and her colt Ravki
The story about old Kulebyakin, Mila the whining horse, and her colt Ravki
Short stories; drafts (documents)
Maker: Liudmila Ulitskaia
ID: 2021.035.002.293
Date Made: [circa 1987/1988]; 1980s
Genele - bag lady
Genele - bag lady
Short stories; drafts (documents)
Maker: Liudmila Ulitskaia
ID: 2021.035.002.294
Date Made: [circa 1987/1988]; 1980s
Letters from E. Recister to I. Zissels and I. Zissels to R. Spector
Letters from E. Recister to I. Zissels and I. Zissels to R. Spector
Texts (documents); letters (correspondence)
Maker: [Iosif Ziselʹs]; [E. Rechister]
ID: 2021.035.002.295
Date Made: 1988-09-04; 1980s
Ternopil alarm (Variations on a theme of memory)
Ternopil alarm (Variations on a theme of memory)
Poems; drafts (documents)
Maker: E. Rechister
ID: 2021.035.002.296
Date Made: 1988-05; 1980s
Ternopil alarm (Variations on a theme of memory)
Ternopil alarm (Variations on a theme of memory)
Poems; texts (documents)
Maker: Rechister Evgenii Semenovich
ID: 2021.035.002.297
Date Made: 1988-05; 1980s
Shalom (stencil)
Shalom (stencil)
Stencils (image-making tools)
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2021.035.002.298
Date Made: 1988/1990; 1980s; 1990s
Shalom (print)
Shalom (print)
Photographs
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2021.035.002.299
Date Made: 1988/1990; 1980s; 1990s
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