Soviet Jewry
From the mid-1960s through the early 1990s, the movement for Soviet Jewry was an international campaign to secure two basic human rights for Jews–their rights to live openly as Jews within the Soviet Union and to emigrate freely if they wished to do so. In 2016, inspired by a sense of urgency to capture these stories before they were lost, JWA organized a collecting project to document the experiences of Soviet Jews and American Jewish activists living in the Boston area. JWA partnered with Brandeis University professor Jonathan Krasner, whose students conducted these interviews under his supervision.