- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 1
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1978-1980
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains notices, promotional material and correspondence related to the Alpha Omega Dentist Fraternity's efforts to mobilize on behalf of Soviet Jews in conjunction with efforts by The Medical Mobilization for Soviet Jewry based out of Massachusetts, U.S.A.. The collected materials pertain to a meeting of Alpha Omega members in Toronto in December 1980.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 2
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1980-1981
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains two pieces of correspondence concerning the formation of the Association of the Soviet Jewry in Canada and related to the coordination of activities with the Toronto Jewish Congress. A newsletter of the Toronto Jewish Congress containing information on the activities of the organization is also included.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 3
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence concerning lectures and activities at Beth Tzedec and the coordination of assistance from Sam Resnick on behalf of the Committee for Soviet Jewry. Also included with materials is a notice of a lecture series by Professor Irwin Cotler at Beth Tzedec Synagogue.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 5
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence, press releases, program, review and promotional materials related to a Symbolic Third Seder held at Beth Tzedec in 1980 with special guest lecturer Peter C. Newman. Newman spoke about his recent travels in the Soviet Union and the contact he made with Jews living in the Soviet Union. The photograph included in this file is a promotional shot of Newman.
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- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 7
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1972-1973, 1983-1984
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains petitions, correspondence and articles related to the Canadian academic community's efforts on behalf of their Soviet Jewish peers and specific appeal campaigns on their behalf. Primary correspondents include Professor Irwin Cotler and Murray Freedman.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 11
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1980-1981
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains petitions, correspondence and articles related to the committee's efforts on behalf of their Soviet Jewish peers and specific appeal campaigns on their behalf. Primary correspondents include the committee's chairman Eric Fawcett and secretary Israel Halperin.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 14
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1980-1981
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence, press releases and various petitions related to the conference activities of collaborations between the Committee of Concerned Scientists (USA) and the Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars. Included are details of seminars delivered at a Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held 4 January 1981 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario and on other occasions and other cities across North America, in honour of scientist in exile from the Soviet Union.
- Related Material
- Related documents can also be found within this sub-series under the files designated to the Committee of Concerned Scientists (File 9) and the Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars (File 8).
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 12
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1972-1974
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 14 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- Lev Levitin was a Soviet electrical and computer engineer and refusnik profiled in the Committee of Soviet Jewry campaigns.
- Scope and Content
- File contains correspondence in English and Russian, press releases, articles, transcripts and various petitions related to the efforts of the Canadian Friends of Soviet Jewry to raise the issue of Soviet emigration and freedom of religion policies among the candidates in the 1974 Canadian Federal Election. Also includes a photo of Lev Levitin with a child. Primary correspondents include H. Wayne Tannenbaum, Chairman of the Canadian Friends of Soviet Jewry. File also includes a number of documents related to the general administration and fundraising activities of the organization.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 16
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1975-1977
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 6 x 7 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The Ottawa Chapter of the Group of 35 was also known as the Ottawa Women's Committee for Soviet Jewry and was affiliated with the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa.
- Scope and Content
- File contains reports on activities of the Ottawa chapter's activities and history, as well as several clippings mentioning the group and a few pieces of correspondence.
- Related Material
- Reference to the Ottawa Group of 35 is also made in the Ottawa Vaad Ha'ir records of this sub-series.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 15
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1977-1978
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The Canadian Branch of Contact/ U.S.S.R. was closely affiliated with the Toronto Group of 35 activists.
- Scope and Content
- File includes guidelines related to the letter writing activities of this group based in Toronto. The file also includes form letters, campaign information regarding the Post Office Registration program and correspondence.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 17
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1974-1987
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 2 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm
- Admin History/Bio
- The Group of 35 also used the name the Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry and had affiliations with numerous international chapters. Active members included Barbara Glass, Marilyn Seigel, Elaine Gudofsky, Heather Brown, Carol Reiter and Marcia Zionce.
- Scope and Content
- File includes membership and executive contact lists, correspondence, campaign materials, press releases, newsletters and circulars, copies of letters to the editor, activities lists, copies of articles and general administrative documents.
- Related Material
- Further reference to the Group of 35 is also made in the records of the Women for Soviet Jewry file of this sub-series.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 22
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1978-1983
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Scope and Content
- File contains minutes of several meetings, along with accompanying petitions and correspondence related to the action of seeking the release of psychiatric professionals in the Soviet Union. Also included are two postcards addressed to R.A. Rudenko, bearing the images of arrested Soviet citizens. One is written in Russian text. The rest of the file is comprised of correspondence, meeting notices and a facsimile of an article titled "The Fear of Freedom: Decompensation of a Psychological State or a Phenomenon of Existence" by Dr. Semyon Gluzman written in 1978.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 19
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1973-1987
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 6 photographs : col. ; 11 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- File contains six unidentified colour photographs of participants in an event, newsletters, facsimiles and originals of letters sent to Parliament and meeting reports, notices and minutes of the World Jewry Committee. Case files are attached to several of the letters. The file also contains a petition, a Passover program, with guest speaker Jim Peterson M.P., and an event poster. Among the members of the organization identified in the documents are Helen Marr, Jeanette Goldman and Stella Rozan.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 26
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1970-1974
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- The student council was affiliated with the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews and had chapters at York University and the University of Toronto.
- Scope and Content
- File includes liaison lists with affiliated organizations, details of co-activities, meeting minutes, correspondence, a conference program, and news bulletins.
- Notes
- The Toronto Student Council for Soviet Jews became The Toronto Student Council for Oppressed Jews in 1975. See corresponding file for further details.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 25
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1974-1977
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 18 cm
- Scope and Content
- File includes a handbook "Natasha's Dream: Children's Handbook on Russian Jews" published by the student council in 1974. Also included are a list of events and activities undertaken by the council, press releases and campaign literature, correspondence and a photograph of students taken during the Trailer project
- Notes
- The Toronto Student Council for Soviet Jews became The Toronto Student Council for Oppressed Jews in 1975. See corresponding file for further details.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 29
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1972-1976
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 9 photographs : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File includes photographs of protest events in 1973 and 1974. Also included are correspondence, financial statements, notices of meetings and events, meeting minutes and agendas, reports, petitions contact lists of members and executives, newspaper articles, press releases, newsletters and posters. Chairman of the committee, Phyllis Sugar, is the primary correspondent in the file. A signed petition includes Toronto Mayor, David Crombie's signature.
- Notes
- Information on the Women for Soviet Jewry is also found in the files for the Group of 35 chapters in Toronto and Ottawa.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1975-1987
- Physical Description
- 4 cm of textual records
- 35 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File contains printed testimonials, notes, correspondence, press releases, operational memoranda, a contact sheet of photos taken during a dinner meeting in 1976,distributed pamphlets, events programs, contact lists, meeting notices, conference notes and a photo of the presentation of a human rights award to David Smith in 1983.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Affiliated organizations sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-4
- File
- 10
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Date
- 1976-1984
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 35 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 13 cm or smaller
- Scope and Content
- File includes correspondence, sample invitation cards, lecture notes and photographs concerning the luncheon lecture programs of the committee. Guests lecturers in this program included Leon S. Lipson, Yoram Dinstein, Natalia Sharansky, Robert McKay, Alan Eagleson, Burton Caine, David Smith, Flora MacDonald, Charles L. Caccia, Fred King, Lynn McDonald and Jim Peterson. Floar McDonald and David Smith are photographed on one contact sheet of 34 photographs during their talk. The other photograph is of Professor of Law Burton Caine.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds
- Committee for Soviet Jewry series
- Refusnik cases sub-series
- Individual Refusnik cases sub-sub series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 17
- Series
- 3-6-1
- File
- 18
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 1977-1983
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Iosif Begun was a mathematics and engineering teacher born in 1932 in Moscow who taught himself Hebrew and worked as a Hebrew teacher. He was first denied permission to emigrate in 1971 and was subsequently dismissed from his job as a researcher at the Moscow Central Research Institute. While working as a Hebrew teacher Begun was arrested in 1977 for parasitism, for "avoiding socially useful work and living on unearned income". He was exiled to Magadan in Siberia and following appeals and hunger strikes was recharged in 1983 for anti-Soviet agitation. His case received a lot of attention because of his role in building a grassroots Jewish culture in the Soviet Union and his attempts to have Hebrew recognized as a national language, protected under Soviet law. In 1988 Begun was released and granted permission to emigrate to Israel with his son Boris's family, his wife Inna and his mother-in-law, Dvoira Lazar.
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- Archival Descriptions