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Protest activities [textual record, graphic material] – 1967-1988.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Committee for Soviet Jewry series; Protest activities sub-series

Level: Sub-series

ID: Fonds 17; Series 3-5

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Committee for Soviet Jewry series; Protest activities sub-series

Level: Sub-series

Fonds: 17

Series: 3-5

Material Format: textual record; graphic material

Date: 1967-1988

Physical Description: 70 cm of textual records; 1238 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm or smaller

Admin History/Bio: Activities undertaken by the Committee for Soviet Jewry in Ontario and its affiliated partner organizations included political lobbying, telephone and letter-writing campaigns, product boycotting, symposiums, public rallies, petitions, marches and demonstrations. Among the highest profile activities were the annual Simcha Torah rallies in October and the annual commemorations of the execution of twenty-four Soviet Jewish writers and intellectuals, which had occurred on August 12, 1952 at Moscow's Liubianka prison. As well as organizing public protest activities, the Committee for Soviet Jewry established, in the 1980s, the Ida Nudel Humanitarian Award which emphasized the humanitarian work of a number of prominent Canadian women. Other non-protest activities included bar/ bat mitzvah twinning, family and prisoner sponsorships, and holiday greetings, all programmes that tied the daily lives of Soviet Jews to their Canadian counterparts.

Scope and Content: Sub-series consists of records documenting the wide range of above-listed protest activities in which the CJC and various affiliated organizations participated. The files include numerous photographs of mass rallies and group demonstrations, planning notes, correspondence, event notices and other promotional materials.

Subjects: Demonstrations

Arrangement: Records of protest activities in this sub-series have been organized chronologically and by event. Indicated date ranges at the file level are of the documents themselves and are not necessarily indicative of the dates of specific events, such as rallies or marches, though such dates are noted in the file description where known.

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Emergency community meeting on anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union [textual record] – Mar. 1977.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Committee for Soviet Jewry series; Protest activities sub-series

Level: File

ID: Fonds 17; Series 3-5; File 69

Source: Archival Descriptions

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Committee for Soviet Jewry series; Protest activities sub-series

Level: File

Fonds: 17

Series: 3-5

File: 69

Material Format: textual record

Date: Mar. 1977

Physical Description: 1 folder of textual records

Scope and Content: File contains a notice and program notes for an emergency meeting held on 30 Mar 1977 at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue.

Name Access: Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects: Antisemitism--Soviet Union

Places: Toronto (Ont.)

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Markish, Esther [graphic material] – 1 Feb. 1973.

Part Of: Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region fonds; Committee for Soviet Jewry series; Refusnik cases sub-series; Individual Refusnik cases sub-sub series; Markish, Esther file

Level: Item

ID: Fonds 17; Series 3-6-1; File 166

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; Markish, Esther file

Level: Item

Fonds: 17

Series: 3-6-1

File: 166

Material Format: graphic material

Date: 1 Feb. 1973

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph is of Esther Markish on her speaking tour of Canada at a luncheon in Toronto at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue

Notes: Photograph by Gadi Hoz.

Name Access: Markish, Esther; Shaarei Shomayim Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)

Subjects: Luncheons

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