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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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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
Contents, Nos. 1-10
Contents, Nos. 1-10
Tables of contents; drafts (documents)
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2021.035.002.001
Date Made: [circa 1972/1975]; 1970s
Jews in the USSR : a collection of materials dedicated to the history, culture and problems of Jews in the Soviet Union, [No. 11], 1975
Jews in the USSR : a collection of materials dedicated to the history, culture and problems of Jews in the Soviet Union, [No. 11], 1975
Periodicals
Maker: Aleksandr Voronelʹ
ID: 2021.035.002.009
Date Made: 1975; 1970s
Jews in the USSR : a collection of materials dedicated to the history, culture and problems of Jews in the Soviet Union, No. 19, November 1978
Jews in the USSR : a collection of materials dedicated to the history, culture and problems of Jews in the Soviet Union, No. 19, November 1978
Periodicals
Maker: Viktor Brailovsky; Irina Brailovskaya; Yuri Golfand
ID: 2021.035.002.023
Date Made: 1978-11; 1970s
Jews in the USSR : a collection of materials dedicated to the history, culture and problems of Jews in the Soviet Union, No. 20, 1979
Jews in the USSR : a collection of materials dedicated to the history, culture and problems of Jews in the Soviet Union, No. 20, 1979
Periodicals
Maker: Viktor Brailovsky; Irina Brailovskaya; Yuri Golfand
ID: 2021.035.002.025
Date Made: 1979; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture : supplement to the magazine “Jews in the USSR”, No. 4, January to February 1976
Tarbut - Culture : supplement to the magazine “Jews in the USSR”, No. 4, January to February 1976
Periodicals
Maker: Benjamin Fain; Feliks Dektor; Rafail Nudelʹman
ID: 2021.035.002.035
Date Made: 1976-01/1976-02; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture : supplement to the magazine “Jews in the USSR”, No. 5, March to April 1976
Tarbut - Culture : supplement to the magazine “Jews in the USSR”, No. 5, March to April 1976
Periodicals
Maker: Unknown
ID: 2021.035.002.039
Date Made: 1976-03/1976-04; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 6, July to August 1976
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 6, July to August 1976
Periodicals
Maker: Benjamin Fain; Feliks Dektor
ID: 2021.035.002.041
Date Made: 1976-07/1976-08; 1970s
Culture, No. 7, September to October 1976
Culture, No. 7, September to October 1976
Periodicals
Maker: Veniamin Fain; Feliks Kandelʹ
ID: 2021.035.002.044
Date Made: 1976-09/1976-10; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 8, February 1977
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 8, February 1977
Periodicals
Maker: Veniamin Fain; Feliks Kandelʹ
ID: 2021.035.002.048
Date Made: 1977-02; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 9, July 1977
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 9, July 1977
Periodicals
Maker: Feliks Kandelʹ; Veniamin Fain
ID: 2021.035.002.053
Date Made: 1977-07; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 10, September 1977
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 10, September 1977
Periodicals
Maker: Ilʹi͡a Ėssas; Feliks Kandelʹ
ID: 2021.035.002.059
Date Made: 1977-09; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 11, March 1978
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 11, March 1978
Periodicals
Maker: Aleksandr Bolʹshoĭ; Ilʹi͡a Ėssas
ID: 2021.035.002.061
Date Made: 1978-03; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture, No. 12, September 1978
Tarbut - Culture, No. 12, September 1978
Periodicals
Maker: Aleksandr Bol'shoi; Lev Godlin; Il'ya Essas
ID: 2021.035.002.064
Date Made: 1978-09; 1970s
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 13, March 1979
Tarbut - Culture : Jewish magazine in Russian language, No. 13, March 1979
Periodicals
Maker: Aleksandr Bol'shoi; Lev Godlin; Ėlii︠a︡gu Ėssas
ID: 2021.035.002.073
Date Made: 1979-03; 1970s
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