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The [[Center for Jewish History]] and [[American Jewish Historical Society]] are hosting an edit-a-thon centered on the American Soviet Jewry movement. The event is open to everyone, no previous Wikipedia editing experience necessary! |
The [[Center for Jewish History]] and the [[American Jewish Historical Society]] are hosting an edit-a-thon centered on the American Soviet Jewry movement. The event is open to everyone, no previous Wikipedia editing experience necessary! |
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We encourage participants to take advantage of resources from the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the [[American Jewish Historical Society]] that were recently digitized with the generous support of the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC). |
We encourage participants to take advantage of resources from the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the [[American Jewish Historical Society]] that were recently digitized with the generous support of the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC). |
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Revision as of 22:03, 22 October 2015
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| When and Where | |
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| Time | Sunday, November 22, 2015 (11:00 am - 4:00 pm) |
| Address | Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues) |
| City, State | New York City, New York |
The Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society are hosting an edit-a-thon centered on the American Soviet Jewry movement. The event is open to everyone, no previous Wikipedia editing experience necessary!
We encourage participants to take advantage of resources from the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American Jewish Historical Society that were recently digitized with the generous support of the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC).
Event information
- Date: Sunday, November 22, 2015
- Time: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Location: Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street, New York, NY
- Training: Training sessions on editing Wikipedia will be held at 11:15 am and 1:00 pm. Experienced Wikipedians will be on-hand to assist throughout the day.
Before the event
- Please create a Wikipedia account
- RSVP via the Center for Jewish History (link will be available soon)
- If you already have a Wikipedia account, please add your username below as well.
During the event
- Please bring a laptop with you!
- Light refreshments will be provided.
- Make edits! Ask questions! Be bold!
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Attendees
Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.
Likely Attendees
- Lange.lea (talk) 21:23, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
- RachelCMiller (talk) 22 October 2015
Tentative
Regrets
Remote participants
Articles to improve
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.
- Movement to Free Soviet Jewry -- Needs extensive copy-editing, additional in-text citations, and more content. The middle two largest paragraphs were copied verbatim (plagiarized) from the website of Beth Israel West Temple, Cleveland. That section needs to be revised and integrated into a larger discussion. Works that can be consulted to improve the article include: Stuart Altschuler, From Exodus to Freedom.
- 1970s Soviet Union aliyah -- expansion and link to archival papers needed
- 1990s Post-Soviet aliyah -- expansion and link to archival papers needed
- Antisemitism in the Soviet Union -- expansion and link to resources at AJHS needed
- Anti-Zionism -- expansion and links to resources at AJHS needed
- Avi Weiss
- Doctors' plot
- Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair -- better sources needed
- Eduard Kuznetsov
- Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews
- Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
- HIAS
- Iosif Begun
- Jackson–Vanik amendment -- heading "Soviet Union" needs references
- Jacob Birnbaum -- better sources needed. See NYT Obit
- Jack Minker
- Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
- Jewish Defense League
- John Steinbruck -- Needs information about Steinbruck’s death in March 2015 and perhaps further details about his relationship to the Jewish community and movement for Soviet Jewry. See Washington Post Obit and Washington Jewish Week Obit
- Meir Kahane
- Natan Sharansky
- National Conference on Soviet Jewry -- Need specific references to website where appropriate, and additional sources other than the organization itself; copy-edit for more objective tone. Possible source: Myrna Shinbaum, "Mobilizing America: The National Conference on Soviet Jewry," p. 173-180, in: M. Friedman & A. Chernin (Eds.), A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews (Brandeis University Press, 1999).
- Night of the Murdered Poets
- Person of Jewish ethnicity
- Refusenik -- Needs in-text citations
- Robert Drinan -- Needs content concerning participation in the Soviet Jewry movement. Several NY Times articles dated 1970s-1980s are helpful; can be found in database with keyword search: Drinan Soviet Jews
- Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
- Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
- Yosef Mendelevitch
- Malcolm Hoenlein
- Si Frumkin
- Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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- Donna Arzt
- Alan Dershowitz
- Zev Yaroslavsky
- Shlomo Carlebach (musician)
- Martin Gilbert
- American Jewish Congress
- Haskel Lookstein -- more content needed concerning activism. See Rafael Medoff's biography, Rav Chesed: The Life and Times of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein (2008)
- List of protest marches on Washington, D.C.
- Peter Yarrow
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- Mary Travers
- Micah Naftalin
- Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
- Persecution of Jews
- Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- State atheism
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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Articles to be created
- Pamela Cohen -- see entry in Jewish Women’s Archive and Stuart Altschuler, From Exodus to Freedom (2005), esp. p. 49-54 (term in office, p. 50)
- Avital Sharansky
- South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry citing Adele and Joel Sandberg. See finding aid for their papers held at AJHS
- Murray Levine -- see finding aid
- Carol Kekst -- see finding aid
- Sovetish Heymland -- to translate from Russian Wikipedia
For further inspiration
For ideas for further articles to edit as well as possible categories to add to articles above, see:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish history
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism
- Soviet Jews (Wikipedia category)
- Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union (Wikipedia category)
- Jewish Russian and Soviet History (Wikipedia category)
- Antisemitism in the Soviet Union (Wikipedia category)
- Refuseniks (Wikipedia category)
Resources
- Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American Jewish Historical Society. See in particular:
- Archival Collections
- Digital Collections - these are artificial collections that pull from many parts of the larger Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. See the above archival collections link for guides to the papers of particular individuals or organizations.
- Digital Collections at the Center for Jewish History - this searches across all digitized items held by all of the Center's partner organizations. Searching here will pull from all items digitized under the recent NHPRC grant for Soviet Jewry materials.
- YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
- Encyclopedia Judaica The electronic version of the 2nd edition (2007) is available onsite at the Center for Jewish History
- American Jewish Archives Journal, published by the AJA, is freely available and keyword searchable.
- Ancestry.com is available onsite at the Center for Jewish History. Go to search.cjh.org, click "Find databases" in the top right corner, and search for Ancestry.