SJMEP is a virtual hub designed to link to relevant material that is located in historical centers and archives around the world. SJMEP’s goal is to make the history of the movement easily accessible and to come alive. As collections are identified and processed, SJMEP’s virtual hub will grow.
SJMEP is committed to sharing the history of the Soviet Jewry movement by using the rich archival resources which document the movement’s various organizations and individual initiatives of activists around the world in the creation of new educational resources.
SJMEP is in regular communication with key archives that house collections related to the Soviet Jewry movement: learning about their content, encouraging them to digitize their collections, and, whenever possible, make their content freely accessible online.
SJMEP is curating the most significant sources (documents, photos, audio and video files) from the archives in order to tell the stories of the Soviet Jewry movement. These specific sources are being uploaded to the SJMEP website and will form the knowledge base for SJMEP’s education activities.
SJMEP is helping to facilitate the digitization and formal archiving of activists’ materials that, at present, remain in people’s “attics, basements and closets.” Whether you have an entire personal collection or just a single meaningful item (like your bar/bat mitzvah twinning booklet, a protest button, a protest poster, or a letter from a prisoner of conscience), we’d love to include it in the stories we tell. If you or someone you know has materials to share, please visit our materials donation page.
SJMEP’s website will include links to all partner archives around the world that house specific collections about the Soviet Jewry movement and its individual activists.
SJMEP’s communications will highlight key digitized collections to the public in order to encourage their use. As part of its growing education initiative, SJMEP aims to equip educators with tools, training, and curated resources to help integrate Soviet Jewry movement materials into classrooms and community programs.
SJMEP is committed to properly crediting and linking contributing archives, accurately representing materials within their historical context, and consulting archival partners when developing educational resources to ensure authenticity. We ask that anyone using materials found on our website, or accessed through our links to partner archives, follow the attribution guidelines provided by SJMEP and the holding archive.
If you know of any collections that we are not including here, please let us know
If you know of any collections that we are not including here, please let us know
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