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Political Commentary 1984-2009

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Newsletters and essays published by Frumkin.
Box 1, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) November 1983-November 1984

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Articles re: the Jackson-Vanik bill withholding trade privileges to the USSR; the spread of information in the USSR via the portable tape recorder; Andropov’s limitation of Jewish, German, and Armenian emigration from the Soviet Union; and Frumkin’s translation of Tomas Schuman’s (aka Yuri Bezmenov) narrative regarding the Soviet recruitment of FBI agent Richard Miller.
Box 1, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -December 1984

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Articles re: the Jackson-Vanik bill withholding trade privileges to the USSR; the spread of information in the USSR via the portable tape recorder; Andropov’s limitation of Jewish, German, and Armenian emigration from the Soviet Union; and Frumkin's translation of Tomas Schuman’s (aka Yuri Bezmenov) narrative regarding the Soviet recruitment of FBI agent Richard Miller.
Box 1, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -July 1988

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Articles re: ’Panorama,’ a Russian newspaper published in the U.S.; References to Kurt Waldheim’s WWII record and regret that Mayor Tom Bradley was absent at the dedication of the Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance.
Box 1, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) December 1987 - July 1988

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Articles re: ’Panorama,’ a Russian newspaper published in the U.S.; References to Kurt Waldheim’s WWII record and regret that Mayor Tom Bradley was absent at the dedication of the Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance.
Box 1, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -May 1989

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Articles re: whether the U.S. should assist Gorbachev to stay in power and a translation of an article by Leonid Shargorodsky.
Box 1, Folder 6

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) December 1988-May 1989

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Articles re: whether the U.S. should assist Gorbachev to stay in power and a translation of an article by Leonid Shargorodsky.
Box 2, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -December 1989

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Articles re: Viktor Bezverkhii, a Leningrad neo-Nazi and the withholding of honor from Marc Chagall's birthplace in Belorussia.
Box 2, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -December 1989

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Articles re: Viktor Bezverkhii, a Leningrad neo-Nazi and the withholding of honor from Marc Chagall's birthplace in Belorussia.
Box 2, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -May 1990

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Articles re: a translation of Professor Herman Andreev’s letter from the Soviet weekly ’Ogoniok;’ Israeli Independence Day; and Chanukah for Russian émigrés in Plummer Park.
Box 2, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -May 1990

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Articles re: a translation of Professor Herman Andreev’s letter from the Soviet weekly ’Ogoniok;’ Israeli Independence Day; and Chanukah for Russian émigrés in Plummer Park.
Box 2, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -December 1990

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Articles re: the jailing of former submarine Captain Valery Zelichonok for refusing to provide false testimony against his brother, who emigrated to Israel; a translation of Gregori Ositor’s children story, ’The Moustache;’ and Lieutenant-General David A. Dragunsky, the highest ranking Jew in the Soviet Army.
Box 3, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) October -December 1990

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Articles re: the jailing of former submarine Captain Valery Zelichonok for refusing to provide false testimony against his brother, who emigrated to Israel; a translation of Gregori Ositor’s children story, ’The Moustache;’ and Lieutenant-General David A. Dragunsky, the highest ranking Jew in the Soviet Army.
Box 3, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -October 1990

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Articles re: the jailing of former submarine Captain Valery Zelichonok for refusing to provide false testimony against his brother, who emigrated to Israel; a translation of Gregori Ositor’s children story, ’The Moustache;’ and Lieutenant-General David A. Dragunsky, the highest ranking Jew in the Soviet Army.
Box 3, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -May 1991

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Articles re: Israel’s attempt to halt Russian emigration to the U.S.; the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps outside Beirut; and Zev Yaroslavsky’s 1969 trip to the USSR.
Box 3, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) March - May 1991

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Articles re: Israel’s attempt to halt Russian emigration to the U.S.; the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps outside Beirut; and Zev Yaroslavsky’s 1969 trip to the USSR.
Box 3, Folder 5

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -March 1991

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Articles re: Israel’s attempt to halt Russian emigration to the U.S.; the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps outside Beirut; and Zev Yaroslavsky’s 1969 trip to the USSR.
Box 4, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -December 1991

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Articles re: Maria Grigorievna’s service as a nurse with the 37th Partisan Brigade during WWII; King Boris’ refusal to send his country’s 45,000 Jews to Nazi death camps; Dmitry Berman seeking asylum in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow. There is also a photo montage of Frumkin, when he was about four or five years old.
Box 4, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) August -June 1991

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Articles re: Maria Grigorievna’s service as a nurse with the 37th Partisan Brigade during WWII; King Boris’ refusal to send his country’s 45,000 Jews to Nazi death camps; Dmitry Berman seeking asylum in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow. There is also a photo montage of Frumkin, when he was about four or five years old.
Box 4, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) August -June 1991

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Articles re: Maria Grigorievna’s service as a nurse with the 37th Partisan Brigade during WWII; King Boris’ refusal to send his country’s 45,000 Jews to Nazi death camps; Dmitry Berman seeking asylum in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow. There is also a photo montage of Frumkin, when he was about four or five years old.
Box 4, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -June 1992

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Articles re: Frumkin’s speaking engagements at 100 schools per year as a Holocaust survivor; Jonathan Pollard supplying Israel with U.S. confidential information between July 1984-November 1985; and L.A. Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky organizing a lunch for Frumkin with visiting St. Petersburg mayor, Anatoly A. Sobchak.
Box 4, Folder 5

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) March - June 1992

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Articles re: Frumkin’s speaking engagements at 100 schools per year as a Holocaust survivor; Jonathan Pollard supplying Israel with U.S. confidential information between July 1984-November 1985; and L.A. Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky organizing a lunch for Frumkin with visiting St. Petersburg mayor, Anatoly A. Sobchak
Box 5, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) December 1991-April 1992

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Articles re: Frumkin’s speaking engagements at 100 schools per year as a Holocaust survivor; Jonathan Pollard supplying Israel with U.S. confidential information between July 1984-November 1985; and L.A. Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky organizing a lunch for Frumkin with visiting St. Petersburg mayor, Anatoly A. Sobchak.
Box 5, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) July -December 1992

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Articles re: Eli Wiesel visiting Dimitry Berman in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow as Berman sought asylum; Frumkin’s translation of Mark Slobodin and Yosif Lakhman’s Russian article in ’Panorama’ regarding Jews who worked for Stalin’s secret police; and the December issue of ’Life’ magazine in which Latvian President Gorbunovs claimed the Jews of Rumbula brought the November 24, 1942 massacre upon themselves.
Box 5, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) October -December 1992

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Articles re: Eli Wiesel visiting Dimitry Berman in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow as Berman sought asylum; Frumkin’s translation of Mark Slobodin and Yosif Lakhman’s Russian article in ’Panorama’ regarding Jews who worked for Stalin’s secret police; and the December issue of ’Life’ magazine in which Latvian President Gorbunovs claimed the Jews of Rumbula brought the November 24, 1942 massacre upon themselves.
Box 5, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) July -October 1992

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Articles re: Eli Wiesel visiting Dimitry Berman in the Canadian Embassy in Moscow as Berman sought asylum; Frumkin’s translation of Mark Slobodin and Yosif Lakhman’s Russian article in ’Panorama’ regarding Jews who worked for Stalin’s secret police; and the December issue of ’Life’ magazine in which Latvian President Gorbunovs claimed the Jews of Rumbula brought the November 24, 1942 massacre upon themselves.
Box 5, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -May 1993

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Articles re: Amsterdam News and radio station WNLB in New York as media that serve Black audiences and are anti-Semitic; Frumkin spending three weeks on an Israeli army base near Tel Aviv as a volunteer.
Box 6, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) March - May 1993

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Articles re: Amsterdam News and radio station WNLB in New York as media that serve Black audiences and are anti-Semitic; Frumkin spending three weeks on an Israeli army base near Tel Aviv as a volunteer.
Box 6, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) November 1992 -February 1993

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Articles re: Amsterdam News and radio station WNLB in New York as media that serve Black audiences and are anti-Semitic; Frumkin spending three weeks on an Israeli army base near Tel Aviv as a volunteer. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from January - May 1993, in which theses articles were published, are also available. "Graffiti"also reprinted articles from The New Republic, L.A. Times, and other newspapers, including a 22 December 1992 article of 200 Russian scientists who are not allowed to emigrate due to knowledge of military or industrial secrets.
Box 6, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -December 1993

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Articles re: INS denial of asylum for Soviet Jews currently residing in the U.S.; Professor Naum Reznik’s Russian lending library in the U.S.; Ukrainian city of Lvov celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian SS Division ’Galicina’; Eugene Levin, Vice President of the Association of Soviet Jewish émigrés.
Box 6, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) September -December 1993

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Articles re: INS denial of asylum for Soviet Jews currently residing in the U.S.; Professor Naum Reznik’s Russian lending library in the U.S.; Ukrainian city of Lvov celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian SS Division ’Galicina;’ Eugene Levin, Vice President of the Association of Soviet Jewish émigrés. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from June-December 1993 in which these articles were published are also available as well as reprints from newspapers, including Jean-Claude Pressac’s book, ’The Auschwitz Crematoria’ which utilized previously unknown SS documents stored in KGB archives in Moscow.
Box 7, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -September 1993

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Articles re: INS denial of asylum for Soviet Jews currently residing in the U.S.; Professor Naum Reznik’s Russian lending library in the U.S.; Ukrainian city of Lvov celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian SS Division ’Galicina;’ Eugene Levin, Vice President of the Association of Soviet Jewish émigrés. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from June-December 1993 in which these articles were published are also available as well as reprints from newspapers, including Jean-Claude Pressac’s book, ’The Auschwitz Crematoria’ which utilized previously unknown SS documents stored in KGB archives in Moscow.
Box 7, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -December 1994

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Articles re: the Vatican's refusal to locate its embassy in Jerusalem; Mayor Ehud Olmert visiting California; Frumkin’s translation of Tatyana Menaker’s ’Growing Old in the Twilight Zone.’
Box 7, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) August -December 1994

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Articles re: the Vatican's refusal to locate its embassy in Jerusalem; Mayor Ehud Olmert visiting California; Frumkin’s translation of Tatyana Menaker’s ’Growing Old in the Twilight Zone.’ In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from June-December 1994, in which theses articles were published, are also available. ’Graffiti’ also reprinted articles translated by Frumkin from the Russian publication, including ’Panorama,’ in which the founding of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews by Lou Rosenblum is narrated.
Box 7, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -August 1994

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Articles re: the Vatican's refusal to locate its embassy in Jerusalem; Mayor Ehud Olmert visiting California; Frumkin’s translation of Tatyana Menaker’s ’Growing Old in the Twilight Zone.’ In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from June-December 1994, in which theses articles were published, are also available. ’Graffiti’ also reprinted articles translated by Frumkin from the Russian publication, including ’Panorama,’ in which the founding of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews by Lou Rosenblum is narrated.
Box 8, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -September 1995

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Articles re: Major Semyon Livshits in Uzbek prison; Frumkin’s aunt receiving a visa from Japanese Diplomat Senpo Sugihara to escape the Kaunas Ghetto during the Holocaust contrasted with the fate of Jonathan Pollard; 400 Soviet Holocaust survivors in southern California; Eugene Levin’s article regarding solving the Federal budget deficit by excluding welfare benefits for naturalized citizens; and the Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies research results that within 3 1/2 years of immigration to Israel, Soviets earn 1/3 more than the average Israeli family but only 1/20 believe that religion defines a Jew.
Box 8, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) September -December 1995

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Articles re: Major Semyon Livshits in Uzbek prison; Frumkin’s aunt receiving a visa from Japanese Diplomat Senpo Sugihara to escape the Kaunas Ghetto during the Holocaust contrasted with the fate of Jonathan Pollard; 400 Soviet Holocaust survivors in southern California; Eugene Levin’s article regarding solving the Federal budget deficit by excluding welfare benefits for naturalized citizens; and the Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies research results that within 3 1/2 years of immigration to Israel, Soviets earn 1/3 more than the average Israeli family but only 1/20 believe that religion defines a Jew.
Box 8, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) September -December 1995

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Articles re: Major Semyon Livshits in Uzbek prison; Frumkin’s aunt receiving a visa from Japanese Diplomat Senpo Sugihara to escape the Kaunas Ghetto during the Holocaust contrasted with the fate of Jonathan Pollard; 400 Soviet Holocaust survivors in southern California; Eugene Levin’s article regarding solving the Federal budget deficit by excluding welfare benefits for naturalized citizens; and the Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies research results that within 3 1/2 years of immigration to Israel, Soviets earn 1/3 more than the average Israeli family but only 1/20 believe that religion defines a Jew. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from 12 June - 18 December 1995, in which theses articles were published, are also available.
Box 8, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -September 1995

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Articles re: Major Semyon Livshits in Uzbek prison; Frumkin’s aunt receiving a visa from Japanese Diplomat Senpo Sugihara to escape the Kaunas Ghetto during the Holocaust contrasted with the fate of Jonathan Pollard; 400 Soviet Holocaust survivors in southern California; Eugene Levin’s article regarding solving the Federal budget deficit by excluding welfare benefits for naturalized citizens; and the Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies research results that within 3 1/2 years of immigration to Israel, Soviets earn 1/3 more than the average Israeli family but only 1/20 believe that religion defines a Jew. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from 12 June - 18 December 1995, in which theses articles were published, are also available.
Box 8, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -June 1996

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Articles re: Prisoners of Zion in Gulags; Frumkin’s remarks to the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors meeting in Washington, D.C. on 16 February 1996; memory of the ACLU’s support of the neo-Nazi march through Skokie, Illinois in February 1996; escape of terrorists who killed Leon Klinghoffer aboard the cruise ship "Achille Lauro" in 1985.
Box 8, Folder 6

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) March - May 1996

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Articles re: Prisoners of Zion in Gulags; Frumkin’s remarks to the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors meeting in Washington, D.C. on 16 February 1996; memory of the ACLU’s support of the neo-Nazi march through Skokie, Illinois in February 1996; escape of terrorists who killed Leon Klinghoffer aboard the cruise ship "Achille Lauro" in 1985. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from 2 January - 20 May 1996 in, which theses articles were published, are also available.
Box 9, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -March 1996

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Articles re: Prisoners of Zion in Gulags; Frumkin’s remarks to the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors meeting in Washington, D.C. on 16 February 1996; memory of the ACLU’s support of the neo-Nazi march through Skokie, Illinois in February 1996; escape of terrorists who killed Leon Klinghoffer aboard the cruise ship "Achille Lauro" in 1985. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter from 2 January - 20 May 1996 in, which theses articles were published, are also available.
Box 9, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -September 1996

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Articles re: Anatoly Dobrynin’s memoirs "In Confidence;" Senator Barbara Boxer’s correspondence with Frumkin regarding Jonathan Pollard; 1/3rd of Holocaust survivors received no reparations from Germany according to U.S. News & World Report; Recently declassified Nazi documents reveal the U.S. knew about the Holocaust in July 1941.
Box 9, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) September -December 1996

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Articles re: Anatoly Dobrynin’s memoirs "In Confidence;" Senator Barbara Boxer’s correspondence with Frumkin regarding Jonathan Pollard; 1/3rd of Holocaust survivors received no reparations from Germany according to U.S. News & World Report; Recently declassified Nazi documents reveal the U.S. knew about the Holocaust in July 1941.
Box 9, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -August 1996

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Articles re: Anatoly Dobrynin’s memoirs "In Confidence;" Senator Barbara Boxer’s correspondence with Frumkin regarding Jonathan Pollard; 1/3rd of Holocaust survivors received no reparations from Germany according to U.S. News & World Report; Recently declassified Nazi documents reveal the U.S. knew about the Holocaust in July 1941. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter reprinted William Safire’s observations regarding the struggle in the Yeltsin government between generals and industrialists.
Box 9, Folder 5

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) September -December 1996

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Articles re: Anatoly Dobrynin’s memoirs "In Confidence;" Senator Barbara Boxer’s correspondence with Frumkin regarding Jonathan Pollard; 1/3rd of Holocaust survivors received no reparations from Germany according to U.S. News & World Report; Recently declassified Nazi documents reveal the U.S. knew about the Holocaust in July 1941. In addition, the ’Graffiti for Intellectuals’ newsletter reprinted William Safire’s observations regarding the struggle in the Yeltsin government between generals and industrialists.
Box 10, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -May 1997

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Articles re: Anatoly Sharansky’s return to Russia as Israel’s Minister of Trade being linked by Frumkin to his desire to have Pepsi pressure the Soviet Government to allow Jews to emigrate; Demonstration against head of Claims Conference preventing Soviet Holocaust survivors from receiving reparations from Germany; Operation Reinhard’s looting of gold, jewelry, and art; Sosthenes Behn received millions of dollars for damages to ITT during WWII.
Box 10, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) March - May 1997

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Articles re: Anatoly Sharansky’s return to Russia as Israel’s Minister of Trade being linked by Frumkin to his desire to have Pepsi pressure the Soviet Government to allow Jews to emigrate; Demonstration against head of Claims Conference preventing Soviet Holocaust survivors from receiving reparations from Germany; Operation Reinhard’s looting of gold, jewelry, and art; Sosthenes Behn received millions of dollars for damages to ITT during WWII. ’Graffiti reprints include a Los Angeles Times article revealing that 50,000 former SS receive $400 million per year as injured WWII victims.
Box 10, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -March 1997

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Articles re: Anatoly Sharansky’s return to Russia as Israel’s Minister of Trade being linked by Frumkin to his desire to have Pepsi pressure the Soviet Government to allow Jews to emigrate; Demonstration against head of Claims Conference preventing Soviet Holocaust survivors from receiving reparations from Germany; Operation Reinhard’s looting of gold, jewelry, and art; Sosthenes Behn received millions of dollars for damages to ITT during WWII. ’Graffiti reprints include a Los Angeles Times article revealing that 50,000 former SS receive $400 million per year as injured WWII victims
Box 10, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) May -September 1997

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Articles re: Righteous Gentiles; Nazi gold in Switzerland; King Boris of Bulgaria halting anti-Jewish measures during the Holocaust, whereas 15,000 Jews of Macedonia and Thrace were not given Bulgarian citizenship and thus deported; Israel’s Zissman Amendment would give Russian émigrés a pension.
Box 10, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) September -December 1997

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Articles re: Righteous Gentiles; Nazi gold in Switzerland; King Boris of Bulgaria halting anti-Jewish measures during the Holocaust, whereas 15,000 Jews of Macedonia and Thrace were not given Bulgarian citizenship and thus deported; Israel’s Zissman Amendment would give Russian émigrés a pension.
Box 10, Folder 6

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) August - December 1997

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Articles re: Righteous Gentiles; Nazi gold in Switzerland; King Boris of Bulgaria halting anti-Jewish measures during the Holocaust, whereas 15,000 Jews of Macedonia and Thrace were not given Bulgarian citizenship and thus deported; Israel’s Zissman Amendment would give Russian émigrés a pension. ’Graffiti’ reprints include a New York Times article of Natan Sharansky discussing Israel-Yasir Arafat negotiations.
Box 11, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -August 1997

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Articles re: Righteous Gentiles; Nazi gold in Switzerland; King Boris of Bulgaria halting anti-Jewish measures during the Holocaust, whereas 15,000 Jews of Macedonia and Thrace were not given Bulgarian citizenship and thus deported; Israel’s Zissman Amendment would give Russian émigrés a pension.
Box 11, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -June 1998

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Articles re: public employees visit the Museum of Tolerance to learn more about meeting the needs of Russian immigrants; Retired General Albert Makashov calling for the restoration of the Pale of the Settlement where Jews would be permitted to live; and the release of Ahmed Katamesh and ten others from Israeli prison.
Box 11, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -June 1998

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Articles re: public employees visit the Museum of Tolerance to learn more about meeting the needs of Russian immigrants; Retired General Albert Makashov calling for the restoration of the Pale of the Settlement where Jews would be permitted to live; and the release of Ahmed Katamesh and ten others from Israeli prison. ’Graffiti’ reprints included John Roth’s apology for equating Israeli treatment of Palestinians with the 1938 Kristallnacht.
Box 11, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) July -December 1998

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Articles re: Swiss reparations of $33 million from banks not placed under the jurisdiction of the Claims Conference; Natan Sharansky criticizing Clinton’s Jewish advisors; Swiss banks settle court case for $1.25 billion; Stephan Flatow prevented from collecting $247 million from Iran for the death of his daughter studying in Israel.
Box 11, Folder 5

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) July -December 1998

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Articles re: Swiss reparations of $33 million from banks not placed under the jurisdiction of the Claims Conference; Natan Sharansky criticizing Clinton’s Jewish advisors; Swiss banks settle court case for $1.25 billion; Stephan Flatow prevented from collecting $247 million from Iran for the death of his daughter studying in Israel. ’Graffiti’ reprints included William Safire’s New York Times article in which he observed that 1/4th of Russians live in poverty, despite the economic boom.
Box 12, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -May 1999

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Articles re: Bernard Wasserstein's evaluation that the estimate of 1.2-1.8 million Jews in Russia is too high (January 1999); Jonathan Pollard and the loss of American justice; Christopher Browning’s view that Nazi Reserve Police Battalion murderers were ’ordinary’ Germans, despite their shootings of unarmed women and children during the Holocaust; Former Israeli Ambassador Shenhar visiting L.A.; Approximately half of the Russian émigrés to Israel have the right to vote and 80% own their own apartments.
Box 12, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -May 1999

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Articles re: Bernard Wasserstein's evaluation that the estimate of 1.2-1.8 million Jews in Russia is too high (January 1999); Jonathan Pollard and the loss of American justice; Christopher Browning’s view that Nazi Reserve Police Battalion murderers were ’ordinary’ Germans, despite their shootings of unarmed women and children during the Holocaust; former Israeli Ambassador Shenhar visiting L.A.; Approximately half of the Russian émigrés to Israel have the right to vote and 80% own their own apartments. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Andrew Zapantis’ book noting that Hitler only needed four German divisions to handle Yugoslav partisans.
Box 12, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -December 1999

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Articles re: Vladimir Bulkovsky photographing KGB Archives from 24 September 1937; Frumkin was forced to work for Mohl/Holzmann A.G.’s jet aircraft plant in Landsberg during the Holocaust; Frumkin’s father, Mykolas Frumkinas (Lithuanian)/Nikolay Grigorievich Frumkin (Russian) ownership of an automobile dealership in Kaunas, Lithuania before WWII; and confiscation of Passover matzah mailed to USSR.
Box 12, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -December 1999

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Articles re: Vladimir Bulkovsky photographing KGB Archives from 24 September 1937; Frumkin was forced to work for Mohl/Holzmann A.G.’s jet aircraft plant in Landsberg during the Holocaust; Frumkin’s father, Mykolas Frumkinas (Lithuanian)/Nikolay Grigorievich Frumkin (Russian) ownership an automobile dealership in Kaunas, Lithuania before WWII; and confiscation of Passover matzah mailed to USSR. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Hirsh Goodman's acclaim for Natan Sharansky as Israel’s Interior Minister.
Box 13, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -July 2000

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Articles re:: the removal of Polish Jews from German-occupied area to Soviet zone after defeating Poland in WWII in September 1939; Gorbachev’s restriction on the sale of vodka; The future of Russian television; and Frumkin leading the fifth Passover Seder and Svetlana Portnyanskaya singing the prayers for Soviet immigrants.
Box 13, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -June 2000

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Articles re: the removal of Polish Jews from German-occupied area to Soviet zone after defeating Poland in WWII in September 1939; Gorbachev’s restriction on the sale of vodka; the future of Russian television; and Frumkin leading the fifth Passover Seder and Svetlana Portnyanskaya singing the prayers for Soviet immigrants. ’Graffiti reprints include: Thomas Friedman’s views on the privatization of the Russian economy, originally appearing in the New York Times.
Box 13, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) July -September 2000

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Articles re: Efim Kaganovich, who as a boy was recruited into the Czar’s Army and won the St. George medal when storming the Turkish fortress in Izmailovsk in 1888; and Viktor Kniazev’s inability to account for $52 million in German reparations given to the Russian Foundation for Reconciliation.
Box 13, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) October -December 2000

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Articles re: Efim Kaganovich, who as a boy was recruited into the Czar’s Army and won the St. George medal when storming the Turkish fortress in Izmailovsk in 1888; and Viktor Kniazev’s inability to account for $52 million in German reparations given to the Russian Foundation for Reconciliation.
Box 14, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) July -December 2000

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Articles re: Efim Kaganovich, who as a boy was recruited into the Czar’s Army and won the St. George medal when storming the Turkish fortress in Izmailovsk in 1888; and Viktor Kniazev’s inability to account for $52 million in German reparations given to the Russian Foundation for Reconciliation. "Graffiti" reprints include: Israel returning U.S. documents which Jonathan Pollard had stolen for them, which were later used to convict him.
Box 14, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -February 2001

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Articles re: Frumkin as a weekly speaker at the Museum of Tolerance; Chechen Moslem insurgency; Translation of Leon Uris’ "Exodus"; and the 1984 documentary ’Terrorists in Retirement,’ recounting the betrayal of 23 Jewish resistance fighters in Paris during 1943 by the Communists; and Ariel Sharon’s visit to Moscow.
Box 14, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) March - May 2001

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Articles re: Frumkin as a weekly speaker at the Museum of Tolerance; Chechen Moslem insurgency; Translation of Leon Uris’ "Exodus"; and the 1984 documentary ’Terrorists in Retirement,’ recounting the betrayal of 23 Jewish resistance fighters in Paris during 1943 by the Communists; and Ariel Sharon’s visit to Moscow.
Box 14, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -May 2001

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Articles re: Frumkin as a weekly speaker at the Museum of Tolerance; Chechen Moslem insurgency; Translation of Leon Uris’ Exodus; and the 1984 documentary ’Terrorists in Retirement,’ recounting the betrayal of 23 Jewish resistance fighters in Paris during 1943 by the Communists; and Ariel Sharon’s visit to Moscow. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Shlomo Slonim’s review of President Clinton’s plan to divide Jerusalem as part of the peace process.
Box 14, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -September 2001

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Articles re: the Philipp Holzmann Corp, which benefitted from Holocaust labor, will build a WWII memorial for the U.S.; the post-Cold War Russian economy; Ariel Sharon’s visit to Moscow.
Box 15, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) September -December 2001

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Articles re: the Philipp Holzmann Corp, which benefitted from Holocaust labor, will build a WWII memorial for the U.S.; the post-Cold War Russian economy; Ariel Sharon’s visit to Moscow.
Box 15, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -December 2001

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Articles re: the Philipp Holzmann Corp, which benefitted from Holocaust labor, will build a WWII memorial for the U.S.; the post-Cold War Russian economy; Ariel Sharon’s visit to Moscow. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: the momentary acceptance of Soviet émigrés after the bombing of a Tel Aviv disco in which most of the victims were formerly from Russia.
Box 15, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -September 2001

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Articles re: the Philipp Holzmann Corp, which benefitted from Holocaust labor, will build a WWII memorial for the U.S.; the post-Cold War Russian economy; Ariel Sharon’s visit to Moscow. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: the momentary acceptance of Soviet émigrés after the bombing of a Tel Aviv disco in which most of the victims were formerly from Russia.
Box 15, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -May 2002

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Articles re: Henry Ford’s mailing of an anti-Semitic anthology to 500,000 influential citizens; Congressman Henry Waxman inviting Ambassador J.D. Bindnagel to speak on Holocaust survivors’ insurance; Alfred Dreyfus Trial in 1884; and the Philipp Holzmann A.G. Company employment during the Holocaust.
Box 15, Folder 5

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -May 2002

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Articles re: Henry Ford’s mailing of an anti-Semitic anthology to 500,000 influential citizens; Congressman Henry Waxman inviting Ambassador J.D. Bindnagel to speak on Holocaust survivors’ insurance; Alfred Dreyfus Trial in 1884; and the Philipp Holzmann A.G. Company employment during the Holocaust. ’Graffiti" reprints include: William Safire’s replacing of the traditional four Passover questions by secular ones.
Box 16, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -May 2004

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Articles re: Mel Gibson’s movie ’The Passion,’ the article "Was Franco a Jew?" Frumkin speaking at Museum of Tolerance; and the U.S. disgusted by events at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
Box 16, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -May 2004

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Articles re: Mel Gibson’s movie ’The Passion,’; the article "Was Franco a Jew?"; Frumkin speaking at Museum of Tolerance; and the U.S. disgusted by events at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. ’Graffiti" reprints include: the Italian journalist, Oriana Fallaci’s assertion that Europe is increasingly becoming an Islamic colony.
Box 16, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -November 2004

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Articles re: Dutch insurance companies give $4.2 million after U.S. law was passed, prohibiting insurance companies from operating in the U.S., which did not offer Holocaust reimbursements; the Treblinka death camp; the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis on August 1, 1944.
Box 16, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) November -December 2004

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Articles re: Dutch insurance companies give $4.2 million after U.S. law was passed, prohibiting insurance companies from operating in the U.S., which did not offer Holocaust reimbursements; the Treblinka death camp; the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis on August 1, 1944.
Box 16, Folder 5

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) July -December 2004

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Articles re: Dutch insurance companies give $4.2 million after U.S. law was passed, prohibiting insurance companies from operating in the U.S., which did not offer Holocaust reimbursements; the Treblinka death camp; the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis on August 1, 1944. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Alexander Veshniakov, the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Federation, claiming that there were millions of African-Americans who were deprived of their right to vote as were 5 million former prisoners.
Box 17, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) July -December 2004

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Articles re: Dutch insurance companies give $4.2 million after U.S. law was passed, prohibiting insurance companies from operating in the U.S., which did not offer Holocaust reimbursements; the Treblinka death camp; the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis on August 1, 1944. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Alexander Veshniakov, the Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Federation, claiming that there were millions of African-Americans who were deprived of their right to vote as were 5 million former prisoners.
Box 17, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -October 2005

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Articles re: America’s role as the world’s policeman, exemplified by the liberation of Dachau; Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death in a Paris hospital; and Frumkin’s testimony as an expert witness in deportation hearings of former Soviets living in the U.S.
Box 17, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) October -December 2005

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Articles re: America’s role as the world’s policeman, exemplified by the liberation of Dachau; Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death in a Paris hospital; and Frumkin’s testimony as an expert witness in deportation hearings of former Soviets living in the U.S.
Box 17, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -October 2005

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Articles re: America’s role as the world’s policeman, exemplified by the liberation of Dachau; Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death in a Paris hospital; and Frumkin’s testimony as an expert witness in deportation hearings of former Soviets living in the U.S. ’Graffiti" reprints include: Jonathan Pollard’s attorney commenting in the ’Jerusalem Post.’
Box 17, Folder 5

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) October -December 2005

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Articles re: America’s role as the world’s policeman, exemplified by the liberation of Dachau; Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death in a Paris hospital; and Frumkin’s testimony as an expert witness in deportation hearings of former Soviets living in the U.S. ’Graffiti" reprints include: Jonathan Pollard’s attorney commenting in the ’Jerusalem Post.’
Box 18, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -March 2006

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Articles re: the victory of Hamas in recent elections and Ernst Leitz III, owner of Leica Camera, saving Jews during the Holocaust.
Box 18, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) March - May 2006

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Articles re: the victory of Hamas in recent elections and Ernst Leitz III, owner of Leica Camera, saving Jews during the Holocaust.
Box 18, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -April 2006

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Articles re: the victory of Hamas in recent elections and Ernst Leitz III, owner of Leica Camera, saving Jews during the Holocaust. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Palestinian Prime Minister designate Ismail Haniyeh stating that The Washington Post had misquoted him in claiming that he was prepared to make peace with Israel.
Box 18, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) April - May 2006

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Articles re: the victory of Hamas in recent elections and Ernst Leitz III, owner of Leica Camera, saved Jews during the Holocaust. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Palestinian Prime Minister designate Ismail Haniyeh stating that The Washington Post had misquoted him in claiming that he was prepared to make peace with Israel.
Box 18, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -August 2006

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Articles re: Yuri Federov’s financial assistance for Gulag survivors; Frumkin’s meeting with the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Amar; and a summary of Edward Luttwak’s analysis of Iran’s nuclear energy program.
Box 19, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) September -December 2006

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Articles re: Yuri Federov’s financial assistance for Gulag survivors; Frumkin’s meeting with the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Amar; and a summary of Edward Luttwak’s analysis of Iran’s nuclear energy program.
Box 19, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -September 2006

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Articles re: Yuri Federov’s financial assistance for Gulag survivors; Frumkin’s meeting with the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Amar; and a summary of Edward Luttwak’s analysis of Iran’s nuclear energy program. ’Graffiti" reprints include: Professor Richard Pipes analysis of Russia’s noncooperation and hostility even after the end of the Cold War.
Box 19, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) September -December 2006

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Articles re: Yuri Federov’s financial assistance for Gulag survivors; Frumkin’s meeting with the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Amar; and a summary of Edward Luttwak’s analysis of Iran’s nuclear energy program. ’Graffiti" reprints include: Professor Richard Pipes analysis of Russia’s noncooperation and hostility even after the end of the Cold War.
Box 19, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -March 2007

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Articles re: Frumkin’s grandfather having good memories of the Germans, who occupied Lithuania in 1915, but being one of the first killed by the Germans in the Kaunas Ghetto in August 1941; Frumkin’s reference to A Short Travel Guide for Jewish Tourists (to Palestine, although published in Russian in 1911); and a contrast between the treatment of fifteen British citizens captured by Iran as opposed to the capture of Israelis eighteen years ago.
Box 19, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) March - May 2007

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Articles re: Frumkin’s grandfather having good memories of the Germans, who occupied Lithuania in 1915, but being one of the first killed by the Germans in the Kaunas Ghetto in August 1941; Frumkin’s reference to A Short Travel Guide for Jewish Tourists (to Palestine, although published in Russian in 1911); and a contrast between the treatment of fifteen British citizens captured by Iran as opposed to the capture of Israelis eighteen years ago.
Box 20, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -April 2007

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Articles re: Frumkin’s grandfather having good memories of the Germans, who occupied Lithuania in 1915, but being one of the first killed by the Germans in the Kaunas Ghetto in August 1941; Frumkin’s reference to A Short Travel Guide for Jewish Tourists (to Palestine, although published in Russian in 1911); and a contrast between the treatment of fifteen British citizens captured by Iran as opposed to the capture of Israelis eighteen years ago. ’Graffiti ’ reprints include: reprint of NY Times article on Hezbollah’s military incursion from Lebanon into Israel.
Box 20, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) April - May 2007

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Articles re: Frumkin’s grandfather having good memories of the Germans, who occupied Lithuania in 1915, but being one of the first killed by the Germans in the Kaunas Ghetto in August 1941; Frumkin’s reference to A Short Travel Guide for Jewish Tourists (to Palestine, although published in Russian in 1911); and a contrast between the treatment of fifteen British citizens captured by Iran as opposed to the capture of Israelis eighteen years ago. ’Graffiti ’ reprints include: reprint of NY Times article on Hezbollah’s military incursion from Lebanon into Israel.
Box 20, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June -August 2007

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Articles re: Frumkin’s experiences in Kaunas and Dachau; German book by Mischka Kukin on humor behind the Iron Curtain; Iranian nuclear power plant; Frumkin’s interviews of Russian survivors for Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation.
Box 20, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) August -December 2007

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Articles re: Frumkin’s experiences in Kaunas and Dachau; German book by Mischka Kukin on humor behind the Iron Curtain; Iranian nuclear power plant; Frumkin’s interviews of Russian survivors for Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation.
Box 20, Folder 5

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -October 2007

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Articles re: Frumkin’s experiences in Kaunas and Dachau; German book by Mischka Kukin on humor behind the Iron Curtain; Iranian nuclear power plant; Frumkin’s interviews of Russian survivors for Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Dennis Prager’s remarks regarding whether Ann Coulter is anti-Semitic.
Box 21, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) October -December 2007

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Articles re: Frumkin’s experiences in Kaunas and Dachau; German book by Mischka Kukin on humor behind the Iron Curtain; Iranian nuclear power plant; Frumkin’s interviews of Russian survivors for Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Dennis Prager’s remarks regarding whether Ann Coulter is anti-Semitic.
Box 21, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -June 2008

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Articles re: Oil for Food Program with Iraq; Holocaust survivors living below the poverty line; Frumkin requested to testify regarding persecution, so that Jewish refugees might not be deported; and Zev Yaroslavsky’s role in filming part of the ’Refusenik’ documentary.
Box 21, Folder 3

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) December 2007-April 2008

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Articles re: Oil for Food Program with Iraq; Holocaust survivors living below the poverty line; Frumkin requested to testify regarding persecution, so that Jewish refugees might not be deported; and Zev Yaroslavsky’s role in filming part of the ’Refusenik’ documentary. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: The Washington Post’s review of Sergei Tretyakov’s expose of the FSB
Box 21, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) April - June 2008

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Articles re: Oil for Food Program with Iraq; Holocaust survivors living below the poverty line; Frumkin requested to testify regarding persecution, so that Jewish refugees might not be deported; and Zev Yaroslavsky’s role in filming part of the ’Refusenik’ documentary. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: The Washington Post’s review of Sergei Tretyakov’s expose of the FSB
Box 21, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) June 2008-January 2009

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Articles re: Wood-burning cars during and after the Holocaust; Viktor Shevchenko, President of the Academy on Problems of Security, Defense, and Judicial Order.
Box 21, Folder 6

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) October2008-January 2009

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Articles re: Wood-burning cars during and after the Holocaust; Viktor Shevchenko, President of the Academy on Problems of Security, Defense, and Judicial Order.
Box 22, Folder 1

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) June -November 2008

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Articles re: Wood-burning cars during and after the Holocaust; Viktor Shevchenko, President of the Academy on Problems of Security, Defense, and Judicial Order. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Journalist Henryk Broder’s speech on anti-Semitism before the Bundestag’s Domestic Affairs Committee.
Box 22, Folder 2

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) November -December 2008

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Articles re: Wood-burning cars during and after the Holocaust; Viktor Shevchenko, President of the Academy on Problems of Security, Defense, and Judicial Order. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: Journalist Henryk Broder’s speech on anti-Semitism before the Bundestag’s Domestic Affairs Committee.
Box 22, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles (Editorials) January -April 2009

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Articles re: France's assistance of the Yishuv (pre-state Israel) in smuggling Jewish immigrants and weapons into Palestine against the British mandate; and the 7th or 8th Passover Seder for Russian immigrants.
Box 22, Folder 4

Graffiti for Intellectuals (Newsletters) January -April 2009

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Articles re: France's assistance of the Yishuv (pre-state Israel) in smuggling Jewish immigrants and weapons into Palestine against the British mandate; and the 7th or 8th Passover Seder for Russian immigrants. ’Graffiti’ reprints include: the possible sale of Russian S- 300 missiles to Iran.
Box 22, Folder 5

Addenda: Si's Scribbles August 1986-July 1988

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Letters and articles, which indicate that Frumkin sent his articles to various out-of-state newspapers for publishing as an Op-Ed article.
Box 22, Folder 6

Addenda: Si's Scribbles August 1988

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Letters and articles, which indicate that Frumkin sent his articles to various out-of-state newspapers for publishing as an Op-Ed article.
Box 22, Folder 7

Addenda: Si's Scribbles January -May 1990

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Letters and articles, which indicate that Frumkin sent his articles to various out-of-state newspapers for publishing as an Op-Ed article.
Box 23, Folder 1

Enlargement of Color Photo

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Enlargement of color photograph depicting about a dozen college students wearing "Justice for Soviet Jews" t-shirts and holding picket signs asking for the release of Anatoly Sharansky and "Free our Brothers in Russia" and similar type demands.
Box 23, Folder 2

Plates for Printing

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One metal plate depicting Lev Frumkin's unsuccessful three year attempt to emigrate from Riga, Latvia.
Box 23, Folder 3

Plates for Printing

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Three metal plates depicting Alexander Feldman as the "Prisoner of the Month" for February
Box 23, Folder 4

Plates for Printing

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One metal plate depicting Mark Dymshitz as the "Prisoner of the Month" for May.
Box 23, Folder 5

Plates for Printing

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One metal plate depicting Ida Nudel as the "Prisoner of the Month" for April
Box 23, Folder 6

Plates for Printing

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One metal plate depicting Sender Levinson as the "Prisoner of the Month" for March
Box 23, Folder 7

Plates for Printing

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Two metal plates depicting Edward Kuznetsov as the "Prisoner of the Month" for January
Box 23, Folder 8

Plates for Printing

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Two metal plates depicting Hillel Butman and Lev Roitburd as the "Prisoner of the Month" for August
Box 23, Folder 9

Plates for Printing September -October 1976

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Two metal plates with layout for article re: the pending settlement of a lawsuit against Hurok Corporation regarding the advertisement in the Bolshoi Ballet program.
Box 23, Folder 10

Plates for Printing December 1975-January 1976

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One metal plate depicting the inauguration of the "Prisoner of the Month" program with Boris Penson.
Box 23, Folder 11

Plates for Printing

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Two metal plates depicting Boris Penson as the "Prisoner of the Month" for December.
Box 23, Folder 12

Plates for Printing

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One metal plate depicting the Ukrainian Dance Company contrasting the "Fiddler on the Roof's" world in 1910 with 1970.
Box 23, Folder 13

Flyer on Osipov Balalaika Orchestra

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Flyer
Box 23, Folder 14

Flyer on Soviet Athletes

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Flyer and original pen-and-ink art work
Box 23, Folder 15

Isaac and Irma Poltinnikov

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Newspaper article and an open letter from Frumkin about the Soviet Jewish ophthalmologist Isaac Poltinnikov's financial difficulties due to his desire to emigrate.
Box 23, Folder 16

Printing remnants

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Art and layout remnants
 

Press Releases 1969-1998

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Information about the efforts of the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews.
Box 24, Folder 1

Soviet Jews 1969-1970

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Press releases regarding Rosh Hashanah cards to be mailed to Jews in the USSR; the candlelight walk in which Mayor Sam Yorty participated; and Supervisor Kenneth Hahn’s special resolution requesting Soviet Jews be allowed to emigrate. Translation of underground Soviet publication ’Chronicka.’
Box 24, Folder 2

Soviet Jews March 1970-January 1971

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding the protest of proposed 1976 Olympics; Frumkin and Zev Yaroslavsky’s decision to unite efforts with Soviet Jewish emigration groups in Washington, Florida, Cleveland, and San Francisco; protest of Moiseyev Ballet; and protest as Dr. Lynus Pauling received the 1970 Lenin Peace Prize.
Box 24, Folder 3

Soviet Jews February -June 1971

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Press releases seeking emigration of Soviet Jews from February-June 1971, including former Soviet ballerina Luba Bershadskaja, who spoke in Los Angeles and boycott on travel to the USSR and a translation of the transcript from the ’Leningrad 11’ Trial, concerning individuals who sought to emigrate from Russia by "hijacking" a plane from Leningrad.
Box 24, Folder 4

Soviet Jews June 1971-March 1972

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Press releases regarding the third annual candlelight walk. Newspaper articles depicting the early political career of Zev Yaroslavsky and other California politicians.
Box 24, Folder 5

Soviet Jews January 1971-December 1973

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Press releases regarding Frumkin and Zev Yaroslavsky demanding the resignation of Jewish Federation officials for opposing a bill allowing 30,000 Soviet Jews to emigrate to U.S.; Frumkin opposed to all U.S. companies intending to increase trade with the USSR; Candlelight Walk; Opening of a L.A. office for Soviet Jewry.
Box 24, Folder 6

Soviet Jews January 1971-December 1973

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding Frumkin and Zev Yaroslavsky demanding the resignation of Jewish Federation officials for opposing a bill allowing 30,000 Soviet Jews to emigrate to U.S.; Frumkin opposed to all U.S. companies intending to increase trade with the USSR; Candlelight Walk; Opening of a L.A. office for Soviet Jewry.
Box 24, Folder 7

Soviet Jews March -November 1972

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding the May 3rd trial of Frumkin and Zev Yaroslavsky for disrupting the Osipov Balalaika Orchestra’s performance at the Shrine Auditorium and Congressman Alphonzo Bell’s leading a delegation to Washington on behalf of Soviet Jews.
Box 24, Folder 8

Soviet Jews November 1972-March 1973

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A 5 September 1972 report by Leonrad W. Schroeter regarding Jewish leadership in the USSR following his eleven day visit; press releases from the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews; and a translation of Alik Feldman’s article on Soviet emigration to Israel.
Box 25, Folder 1

Soviet Jews November 1973-June 1975

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Press releases regarding L.A. City Councilmen seeking emigration for five Leningrad Jews; Southern California Council for Soviet Jews material; invitation to a reception for Kirill Khenkin at Congressman Alphonzo Bell’s home; the disruption of telephone connection between Moscow (Project Interference) and the U.S.; Frumkin’s and Zev Yaroslavsky’s April 1974 trip to the USSR; the emigration of Valeri and Galina Panov.
Box 25, Folder 2

Soviet Jews November 1973-June 1975

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Press releases regarding L.A. City Councilmen seeking emigration for five Leningrad Jews; Southern California Council for Soviet Jews material; invitation to a reception for Kirill Khenkin at Congressman Alphonzo Bell’s home; the disruption of telephone connection between Moscow (Project Interference) and the U.S.; Frumkin’s and Zev Yaroslavsky’s April 1974 trip to the USSR; the emigration of Valeri and Galina Panov.
Box 25, Folder 3

Soviet Jews 1973-1975

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Press releases regarding appeals to act on behalf of Jews desirous of emigrating; Jewish activists such as Colonel Efrim Aronovich Davidovich, Ida Nudel, Alexander Tiomkin, Victor Polsky, Valeri & Galina Panov, and Yuli Tartakovsky; Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky’s participation in the demonstration against the Bolshoi Ballet performance at the Shrine Auditorium.
Box 25, Folder 4

Soviet Jews 1973-1975

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding appeals to act on behalf of Jews desirous of emigrating; Jewish activists such as Colonel Efrim Aronovich Davidovich, Ida Nudel, Alexander Tiomkin, Victor Polsky, Valeri & Galina Panov, and Yuli Tartakovsky; Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky’s participation in the demonstration against the Bolshoi Ballet performance at the Shrine Auditorium.
Box 25, Folder 5

Soviet Jews August 1973-October 1975

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding Zev Yaroslavsky winning the Fifth District City Council running as a ’Jewish Community Executive;’ The demonstration as the Hermitage art was displayed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and an open letter from Colonel Yefim Davidovitch to Brezhnev seeking to emigrate to Israel.
Box 25, Folder 6

Soviet Jews October 1973-May 1976

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Press releases regarding the Mills-Vanik Bill (House version of Jackson Amendment); List of Russian Jews needing money to pay for the 900 Rubles exit permit; a signed letter from Zev Yaroslavsky asking for financial support of Soviet Jews in light of his teaching the eighth and ninth graders in the Pasadena Temple; and the demonstration at the opening performance of the Moiseyev Dancers held at the Shrine Auditorium.
Box 25, Folder 7

Soviet Jews 1976

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding a description of conditions in Soviet concentration camps for political prisoners; Also the ’Prisoner of the Month’ Project with an explanation of the four levels of punishment: general, reinforced, strict and special regimes.
Box 26, Folder 1

Soviet Jews 1976

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding conditions in Soviet concentration camps for political prisoners; Also the ’Prisoner of the Month’ Project (Ida Nudel, Alexander Feldman, Edward Kuznetsov, Boris Penson, Hillel Butman, Lev Roitburd, and Sender Levinson) with an explanation of the four levels of punishment: general, reinforced, strict and special regimes.
Box 26, Folder 2

Soviet Jews (1 of 2) December 1989-December 1990

Scope and Content Note

A list containing names, addresses and telephone numbers of groups in Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia which need Jewish materials and what languages they speak. An open letter explaining the revitalization of the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, since the last communication in 1985. Also included are "L.A. Daily News" and "Heritage" articles regarding Leningrad to become L.A.'s sister-city with Zev Yaroslavsky offering a compromise in the L.A. City Council. In addition, there is data on the mass rally at the Wilshire Blvd. Federal Building.
Box 26, Folder 3

Soviet Jews (2 of 2) December 1989-December 1990

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A six-page report on Frumkin's and Zev Yaroslavsky's May 1990 trip to Moscow; Also data on the "Seekers," who try to provide a burial for those Soviet soldiers killed in WWII and Frumkin's visit to the Arkhipova Choral Synagogue. "Operation Exodus" received $200,000 in pledges to aid Soviets desirous of emigrating. Newspaper photos of Frumkin burning a Soviet flag at the Federal building in 1970 and demonstrating at the Bolshoi Ballet's performance at the Shrine Auditorium in 1975.
Box 26, Folder 4

Soviet Jews (1 of 2) December 1987-December 1991

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A five page fax from Judy Patkin of the UCSJ entitled "The Crisis facing Jews in the USSR who are Trying to Leave" in preparation for the February 1991 Action for Soviet Jewry Board Meeting. The article "Ukrainian-Jewish Relations: An Interview with Oleksandr Burakovskyi." Natan Sharansky's article "We are living through biblical times." Weekly issues of the "Monitor," the publication of the UCSJ.
Box 26, Folder 5

Soviet Jews (2 of 2) December 1987-December 1991

Scope and Content Note

Weekly issues of the "Monitor," the publication of the UCSJ including the report that refusenik Alexander Safian had committed suicide, but Mikhail Khodos had been released from prison. There is also Natan Sharansky's article on Lazar Moisevich Kaganovich from the August 1991 "The Jerusalem Report." 30 September 1991 article on the dedication of the new Babi Yar monument in Plummer Park, West Hollywood. Also numerous articles on Pamyat activities in the former USSR, including the start of their own radio program on 29 September 1991.
Box 27, Folder 1

Soviet Jews (1 of 2) January 1992-March 1994

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding the arrest of Mark Glizer in Moscow. Frumkin's trip to China to help establish an exhibit on the Holocaust on behalf of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the list of the $1,000 worth of books that Frumkin brought to the Shanghai Center for Israel and Judaic Studies. Weekly issues of the "Monitor," the publication of the UCSJ, including the trial of Vladimir Epshtein. 15 page report by The Caucasus Network on the impact of Islam in Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan on Jewish communities. 15 page Executive Summary by the House Republican Research Committee on "Iran's Strategy and Nuclear Capabilities."
Box 27, Folder 2

Soviet Jews (2 of 2) January 1992-March 1994

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding the Russian-American Bureau on Human Rights presented updates from activists in Moscow, Estonia, Kiev, Odessa, and other locations. Correspondence between Dr. David W. Weiss of The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School Jerusalem and Alan L. Gleitsman regarding a plan to employ physicians from the former USSR in cancer research in Israel and the existing retraining occurring at the Lautenberg Center. Mark Glizer was released early from hard labor in a Russian prison. Frumkin's translation from Russian into English regarding the KGB's case against Vadim Isaeivich Chufistov.
Box 27, Folder 3

Soviet Jews 1991-1998

Scope and Content Note

Assortment of newspaper articles and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews material regarding Soviet emigration statistics.
Box 27, Folder 4

Soviet Jews 1994 (1 of 2) March 1994-August 1995

Scope and Content Note

Diverse items include a letter from Alexander Polovets to President Clinton opposing the cutting of Social Security benefits for recent immigrants. In addition, Frumkin was the featured speaker of the Holocaust Remembrance Program at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Also the "Messenger" and "Heritage" newspaper coverage of the Simon Wiesenthal Center-Soka University's (Tokyo) exhibit on Anne Frank and the Japanese Diplomat in Kaunas, Sempo Sugihara. Coverage of Soviet Holocaust survivors expressing concern about receiving German reparations. Program for the screening of "Schindler's List" in the Russian language for 200 survivors at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Box 28, Folder 1

Soviet Jews 1994 (2 of 2) September 1995-March 1998

Scope and Content Note

A letter from University of Colorado at Boulder thanking Frumkin for allowing the Library to photocopy four boxes of material for their Archives. Articles on Russian emigration to Israel featuring Hillel Buttman and Ya'akov Kedmi; Passover Seder celebrated by 450 Russian immigrants at Temple Beth El in Hollywood, featuring Frumkin and Svetlana Portnyanskaya. Data regarding Soviet Holocaust survivors protesting the slowness of the Claims Conference.
Box 28, Folder 2

Soviet Jews 1994; Trip to Moscow Fall 1994

Scope and Content Note

A report containing Frumkin's narration plus 80 photos and 16 postcards of his fall 1994 trip to Moscow discussing nascent entrepreneurialism, the Russian mafia, and customs regulations.
Box 28, Folder 3

Soviet Jews 1998 (1 of 3) April 1998-October 2003

Scope and Content Note

A flyer announcing the screening of Martin Gilbert's documentary of "Kovno Ghetto: A Buried History" and Disney's "Miracle at Midnight," depicting Dr. Ebba Lund's organization of the Danish fishing fleet to save 800 Jews. Invitation to Alexander Polovets 65th birthday. Through interactive media, Frumkin spoke with eighth graders in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Two dozen photos of Captain Danya Fishman's fundraising tour of the U.S. seeking donations for the Israeli Defense Forces and Russian immigrants to the U.S. supporting Israel.
Box 28, Folder 4

Soviet Jews 1998 (2 of 3) December 2003-December 2004

Scope and Content Note

Photos of Ben Shemen Park. Copy of Natan Sharansky's article "The Lessons of our Struggle" from the Jerusalem Report of 17 May 2004.
Box 28, Folder 5

Soviet Jews 1998 (3 of 3) March 2005-December 2008

Scope and Content Note

Articles regarding Frumkin being honored by Richard Mahan, the Executive Director of the California Humanitarian Foundation for Holocaust Survivors in March 2006 for his efforts on the Board of Directors. Frumkin also received the 2006 Cohon Award in America for his fight on behalf of Soviet Jews. Frumkin was the featured speaker at the exhibition of Michael Kenna's photographs on 25 March 2007 at the Carlsbad City Library.
Box 28, Folder 6

Soviet Jews 1998 E-mail September 1998-January 2000

Scope and Content Note

Mass mailing from the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews with e-mails regarding the translation and publication of various former Soviet dissidents, including Leonid Stonov's trip to the former Soviet Union in November 1998. Other topics include anti-Semitism in the politically unstable former Soviet Union and the problems that existed in the transition from Communism, including the assassination of Galina Starovoitova. Of special interest is Micah Naftalin's testimony regarding anti-Semitism in Russia before the Helsinki Commission.
 

Research Files 1989-1996

Scope and Content Note

Clippings, correspondence and writings on topics relating to Soviet and American Jews.
Box 29, Folder 1

Africa 1989-1996

Scope and Content Note

L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, and U.S. News & World Report articles on Somalia, Rwanda, Eritrea, etc.
Box 29, Folder 2

Annoying Russian Comments 1998

Scope and Content Note

Letters and some newspaper articles written in Russian.
Box 29, Folder 3

American Association of Russian Jews 1989-1998

Scope and Content Note

A report of anti-Semitic violence in the former USSR; articles from Forward and the Russian Daily News; Comments by Alexander Matlin and Inna Arolovich of the American Association of Russian Jews (in Amityville, NY).
Box 29, Folder 4

Anchorage, Alaska March-April 1994

Scope and Content Note

Educational material from a cruise to Anchorage to hear keynote speaker Cornelius Suijk, President of the International Anne Frank Foundation; also the viewing of a film series at the University of Alaska and the attendance at a cantata at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art presented by Congregation Beth Sholom.
Box 29, Folder 5

American Jewish Forum November 12, 1995

Scope and Content Note

A published advertisement regarding the "Community Conversations: Public Policy and the Jewish Community" Conference at Young Israel of Century City in which William Kristol, Jay Lefkowitz, Mona Charen, and Hillel Fradkin were the key speakers.
Box 29, Folder 6

Association of Soviet Jewish émigrés 1998-1999

Scope and Content Note

Faxes, letters and executive summaries from an advocacy group on behalf of former Soviet Jews assisting with SSI, Medicare, job training, and law enforcement.
Box 29, Folder 7

Bonfire January 1974

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding Frumkin's project to boycott Standard Oil Company and Christopher T. Rand's article "The Arabian Fantasy; A dissenting view of the oil crisis."
Box 29, Folder 8

Babi Yar 1990-October 1991

Scope and Content Note

An agenda and handwritten manuscripts regarding the fiftieth anniversary commemorating Babi Yar written in Russian.
Box 29, Folder 9

Baltic countries (1 of 4) March 1990-November 2002

Scope and Content Note

Includes articles from "The American Spectator," "Forward," "Atlantic Monthly," and "Dorot" and letters by the Lithuanian Action Center in English, Russian, and Lithuanian regarding both the pardoning of Holocaust perpetrators in the Baltic countries as well as the move towards independence as the USSR broke apart. Statements and the translation into English of speeches made by Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis and Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius. Other issues include Kaunas becoming a sister city of L.A. on 10 May 1991. Latvia's rejection of the anti-Semitism reported in Edward Barnes' December 1992 article in "Life" is also included.
Box 29, Folder 10

Baltic countries (2 of 4) March 1990-November 2002

Box 29, Folder 11

Baltic countries (3 of 4) March 1990-November 2002

Box 30, Folder 1

Baltic countries (4 of 4) March 1990-November 2002

Box 30, Folder 2

Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews December 1990-June 1993

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence and a copy of the 15th anniversary issue of "Outcry."
Box 30, Folder 3

Blazer's Berlin International Conference November 1991

Scope and Content Note

A conference folder from the "International Jewish News" publisher Phil Blazer, who sponsored and organized a Holocaust conference in Berlin including presentations by Franklin Littell, Kurt Patzold, Jacob Neusner, and Beate Klarsfeld.
Box 30, Folder 4

Candlelight Walk-1970 December 1970

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper clippings re: Mayor Sam Yorty, Councilman Tom Bradley, and television commentator George Putnam leading the Second Annual Candlelight Walk protesting discrimination against Soviet Jews. Radio personality Dick Whittington served as Master of Ceremonies.
Box 30, Folder 5

Candlelight Walk-1971 December 1971

Scope and Content Note

Press releases and newspaper articles re: Representative Alphonzo Bell, who led the Third Annual Candlelight Walk protesting discrimination against Soviet Jews. Radio personality Dick Whittington served as Master of Ceremonies.
Box 30, Folder 6

Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) 1996

Scope and Content Note

Memos from Linda Chavez's Washington, D.C. organization that opposed color-conscious quotas.
Box 30, Folder 7

Chabad Russian Community Center & Synagogue August 1993-August 1996

Scope and Content Note

Letters re: a dispute with Rabbi Naftali Estulin concerning whether he could present Frumkin as a member of the Chabad Board of Directors. Also translations of Rabbi Estulin's articles.
Box 30, Folder 8

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany December 1992-August 1996

Scope and Content Note

Letters concerning Holocaust survivors' difficulties in receiving restitution from the Claims Conference. (The Claims Conference was established in 1952 as a non-profit group representing two dozen international Jewish organizations in an attempt to distribute $635 million to Soviet Jews who spent six months in a concentration camp or eighteen months in a ghetto.) Providing acceptable documentation and the slowness of the process led to numerous articles in the L.A. Times and "Together" as well as much correspondence with Congressmen and attorneys in which Frumkin attempted to assist survivors obtain compensation.
Box 31, Folder 1

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (1 of 9) 1996-1997

Scope and Content Note

Letters concerning Holocaust Survivors' difficulties in receiving restitution from the Claims Conference.
Box 31, Folder 2

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (2 of 9) 1996-1997

Scope and Content Note

Includes confidential background material for the 17 June 1994 and the 10-11 July 1996 Claims Conference biennial meetings.
Box 31, Folder 3

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (3 of 9) 1996-1997

Scope and Content Note

Included is a 20 April 1997 "Washington Post Magazine" article on Meli Stein's application to the Claims Conference administered by President Israel Miller and Executive Vice President Saul Kagan. Also a 16 May 1997 article by Edward Serotta from the German newspaper "Die Zeit;" a 15 May 1997 article by Netty Gross from "The Jerusalem Report;" and a 13 June 1988 article in "Der Spiegel" in which Henryk M. Broder speculated whether Werner Nachmann as President of the Board of Directors of the Zentralrats der Juden in Germany had defrauded the organization he was supposed to represent.
Box 31, Folder 4

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (4 of 9) April 1993-May 1996

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten correspondence in English and Russian regarding the applications of numerous Holocaust survivors attempting to obtain restitution. Also an 11 October 1991 article from the "Baltimore Jewish Times" on Jewish life in the Ukrainian town of Chechelnik.
Box 31, Folder 5

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (5 of 9) 1996-1997

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten correspondence mostly in Russian regarding the applications of numerous Holocaust survivors attempting to obtain restitution.
Box 31, Folder 6

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (6 of 9) 1996-1997

Scope and Content Note

Handwritten correspondence mostly in Russian regarding the applications of numerous Holocaust survivors attempting to obtain restitution.
Box 31, Folder 7

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (7 of 9) August 1995-February 1997

Scope and Content Note

Packets of twenty-two documents, including the By-Laws of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, and correspondence from Congressman Tom Lantos and German Consul General Hans Alard von Rohr, to assist survivors in their appeals for restitution.
Box 32, Folder 1

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (8 of 9)

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Russian Holocaust survivors seeking assistance in obtaining restitution from the Claims Conference
Box 32, Folder 2

Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (9 of 9) February -June 1997

Scope and Content Note

Fumkin's summary of his meeting with Saul Kagan of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, and lengthy articles from "The Washington Post Magazine" and "The Jerusalem Report."
Box 32, Folder 3

Conference on Jewish Material Claims, Appeals by Soviet Survivors May 1995-April 1998

Scope and Content Note

Various charts presenting survivor names, addresses, their attorneys' names and amount of compensation received along with a letter from the Claims Conference stating they there are no applications filed for sixteen of the southern California survivors mentioned. Also correspondence between Frumkin and Sol Kagan of the Claims Conference.
Box 32, Folder 4

Conference on Jewish Material Claims, Correspondence September 1995-February 1999

Scope and Content Note

Background material for the Board of Directors' July 1996 meeting of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims. A letter in German from the approximately 200 Soviet Holocaust survivors living in L.A. to Chancellor Helmut Kohl and letters from the German Consul General, Hans Alard von Rohr as well as from Mr. Geis at the Finance Ministry. Also letters from "The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, and an unsigned letter from Elie Wiesel on Boston University Letterhead.
Box 32, Folder 5

Correspondence for publication in the L.A. Times (1 of 2)

Scope and Content Note

Letters to the Editor of the "Los Angeles Times."
Box 33, Folder 1

Correspondence for publication in the L.A. Times (2 of 2) October 1989-February 1997

Scope and Content Note

Letters to the Editor of the "Los Angeles Times."
Box 33, Folder 2

Correspondence-Private (1 of 2) December 1991-February 1998

Scope and Content Note

Personal correspondence.
Box 33, Folder 3

Correspondence-Private (2 of 2) December 1996-June 2002

Scope and Content Note

Personal correspondence, including two personal notes from Sir Martin Gilbert from May 2003.
Box 33, Folder 4

Commission (L.A. City Board of Human Relations) September -October 1993

Scope and Content Note

Letters appointing Frumkin to the L.A. City Board of Human Relations by Mayor Riordan.
Box 33, Folder 5

Crisis in Chechnya 1994-1995

Scope and Content Note

"N.Y. Times" and "L.A. Times" Newspaper articles regarding Boris Yeltsin's and Lt. General Alexander Lebed's involvement in the crisis in Chechnya.
Box 33, Folder 6

Educational Material (1 of 2) 1971-1986

Scope and Content Note

Teaching material that Frumkin may have used in lecturing for classes at the Stephen S. Wise Temple and other locations, commencing with his biographical data and inventory of his papers; Attendees at the First Zionistic Congress in Basel in 1897; A July 5, 1986 article on the "Refuseniks" in the USSR published in "The Jerusalem Post."
Box 33, Folder 7

Educational Material (2 of 2) 1971-1995

Scope and Content Note

Teaching material that Frumkin may have used in lecturing for classes commencing with Allen Pollack's "The Soviet Union vs. the Jewish People" and including a 36 page report written in Russian by Izrail Rabinovich in April 1989 and a 23-part lecture series given by Frumkin at the Jewish Community Foundation from April-June 1995.
Box 34, Folder 1

Ethiopia October 1988-August 1989

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper articles and Barbara Diamond's report on "The Abandoned Jews in Ethiopia."
Box 34, Folder 2

Falcon International Ltd 1996

Scope and Content Note

Publicity material concerning Falcon International Ltd, a Wilshire Boulevard corporation doing business with Russia.
Box 34, Folder 3

Federation (Jewish Federation Council) January 1990-December 1998

Scope and Content Note

Minutes of Jewish Family Service; Jewish Vocational Service; and the Immigration & Resettlement Department, and a listing of presidents of major U.S. Jewish organizations along with their IRS Form 990 income for 1996.
Box 34, Folder 4

Feinstein, Senator Diane August 1993-November 1995

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Sen. Feinstein re: her position that an immigrant's sponsor would indeed take financial responsibility for the person's medical care.
Box 34, Folder 5

Finkel, Moisey Z. March -August 1995

Scope and Content Note

Letters concerning Moisey Z. Finkel, who was arrested in Moscow on August 4, 1994 and the correspondence from the Union of Councils, which brought his imprisonment in Lefortovo Prison to the attention of Boris Yeltsin.
Box 34, Folder 6

"Forum" Magazine of Jerusalem June 1990-September 1991

Scope and Content Note

Seven issues of the "Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum" published in Jerusalem, and two copies of the "Judische Korrespondenz," the monthly newsletter from the Jewish Cultural Association in Berlin.
Box 34, Folder 7

Gathering of Holocaust Survivors' Conference January -February 1998

Scope and Content Note

Resolutions adopted by the National Leadership Conference conducted in Washington, D.C. by the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and attended by Frumkin.
Box 34, Folder 8

Genya Intrator August 1995-October 1998

Scope and Content Note

Translations from Hebrew and Russian into English regarding the plight of Soviet refuseniks, such as Ida Nudel, Joseph Begun, Aba Taratuta, Victor Brailovsky, and Vladimir Slepak, living in Israel but unable to earn a pension and thus living off senior citizen supplement. The Zissman Amendment attempted to offer Prisoners of Zion an Israeli pension, but was opposed by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Box 34, Folder 9

Glasnost December 1990-February 1992

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "Freedom at Issue" and "Radio Free Europe's" Soviet/East European Report.
Box 34, Folder 10

Gruziya's Cruise to St. Petersburg, Florida May 2-7, 1993

Scope and Content Note

Photographs and ship's daily programs aboard OdessAmerica's cruise ship M.V. Gruziya to Belize City, Belize; Cancun, Mexico; Puerto Cortes, Honduras; and St. Petersburg, Florida. Also photocopies of the tile pages from Holocaust books including Ernst Klee's "The Good Old Days;" Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men;" and Martin Gilbert's "Auschwitz and the Allies." Also handouts for Frumkin's on-board lectures from Stanley Milgram's title page "Obedience to Authority."
Box 34, Folder 11

Hoffman's Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jews April 1993-May 1996

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence to and from Lillian Hoffman, who arranged for the bust of Raoul Wallenberg to be placed in the Capitol.
Box 34, Folder 12

Hoffman, Candidate for Congress April 1997-October 1998

Scope and Content Note

Political campaign material from Magellan Systems Corporation's founder, Randy Hoffman, who ran for California's 24th Congressional District.
Box 34, Folder 13

Immigrants from former USSR to Israel December 1994-December 1997

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "The Jerusalem Post" examine whether immigrants from the former USSR, who emigrate to Israel, are Jewish.
Box 34, Folder 14

Immigrants from former USSR to the U.S. (folder 1 of 2) December 1991-April 1993

Scope and Content Note

Personal correspondence between Frumkin and Russian émigrés seeking assistance.
Box 35, Folder 1

Immigrants from former USSR to the U.S. (folder 2 of 2) July 1992-February 2002

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the "New York Times," "Business Week" and "The New Republic." Also personal correspondence between Frumkin and Russian émigrés seeking assistance.
Box 35, Folder 2

Immigration & Naturalization Service's Asylum Cases December 1991-May 1993

Scope and Content Note

Letters regarding INS's intent to deny immigration to former Soviet citizens living in the U.S.
Box 35, Folder 3

Immigration to the U.S. 1996

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the "New York Times," "Los Angeles Times" and "Forward."
Box 35, Folder 4

Intifada December 1987-December 1992

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the "Los Angeles Times" and "The Jerusalem Post," and information on Hamas from the Israeli Consulate.
Box 35, Folder 5

Israel, favorable press towards September 1988-March 1992

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper articles from "The American Spectator," "Commentary," and "The Washington Post."
Box 35, Folder 6

Israel (1 of 3) February 1988-June 1989

Scope and Content Note

Brochures include: B'nai B'rith's "A Pocket Guide to the PLO," "Prime Minister's Conference on Jewish Solidarity with Israel" and The Jerusalem Post's "Israel in Medialand."
Box 35, Folder 7

Israel (2 of 3) October 1988-October 1990

Scope and Content Note

Material from "CAMERA" (the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America); the Israeli Embassy; and brochure from Frank Eiklor's entitled "Israel Front Page: The Untold Story."
Box 35, Folder 8

Israel (3 of 3) January 1991-May 1996

Scope and Content Note

Material from the Israeli Embassy; Stewart Reiser's brochure "Soviet Jewish Emigration to Israel;" and Martin Gilbert's "Jerusalem: A Tale of One City" published in the November 1994 issue of The New Republic.
Box 36, Folder 1

Israeli Political Issues 1996-1998

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "The Heritage Foundation News," "Congress Monthly," "The Jerusalem Post," and "The New Republic."
Box 36, Folder 2

Jewish Activists December 1994-October 1997

Scope and Content Note

Faxes from the Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha concerning subjects including the building of a mall at the entrance to Auschwitz, the trial of Nazi guard John Demjanjuk; a comparison of Robert C. Kim with Jonathan Pollard, and Netanyahu's concerns regarding armed conflict with the Palestinians.
Box 36, Folder 3

Jewish Defense League 1990-1994

Scope and Content Note

A "Washington Post" article from 1990 and the "JDL News & Views" from 1994.
Box 36, Folder 4

Lazarus Fund 1996-1998

Scope and Content Note

Letters regarding the Emma Lazarus Fund, which George Soros founded with a $50 million allocation in order to combat discrimination against legal immigrants in the U.S.
Box 36, Folder 5

Leon Kann, founder of "Club of Creative Intellectuals" 1997

Scope and Content Note

Letter and memo concerning Leon Kann, who introduced sound to Soviet motion pictures and after a two year process was allowed to immigrate to the U.S. in 1975. He brought culture and entertainment to the Russian immigrants of L.A. until his death in 1987.
Box 36, Folder 6

Letters March 1987-June 1993

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence includes a letter by Col. Frederick P. Field regarding Frumkin's internment in Kaufering Concentration Camp #1; Gary Becks regarding the desecration of the synagogue in Managua, Nicaragua; and letters from Senators and Congressmen.
Box 36, Folder 7

Livshits, Major Semyon Vladlenovich May 1994-August 1996

Scope and Content Note

Letters and articles regarding Major Semyon Vladlenovich Livshits, who was sentenced to ten years deprivation of freedom by a Russian military tribunal in Vladivostok.
Box 36, Folder 8

Love on 4 Paws December 1997

Scope and Content Note

Press releases regarding an organization of volunteers training dogs for therapeutic assistance of blind, elderly, and special needs individuals as well as articles on the benefits of dogs.
Box 36, Folder 9

MBNA Fraud 1998

Scope and Content Note

Letters regarding the theft of Frumkin's identity, which enabled a thief to write fraudulent checks.
Box 36, Folder 10

McGinnis, Patrick E., Esq. 1996

Scope and Content Note

Subpoena and legal papers in a court case on behalf of the Estate of Aleksandr M. Goldenberg regarding whether it was possible to conceal personal wealth in the USSR.
Box 36, Folder 11

Nigerian scam 1995

Scope and Content Note

A letter from Lagos, Nigeria requesting Frumkin to send money so that a much larger sum could be transferred to him.
Box 36, Folder 12

Operation Grow Hair November 1993-January 1994

Scope and Content Note

A memo and newspaper articles concerning the Organized Crime Strike Force against skinheads.
Box 37, Folder 1

Palestine April 1986-January 1997

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "Newsweek," "The Jerusalem Post," "The New Republic," and "The New York Times." In addition, there are flyers from the Christian Mideast Conference "Fact- Page" [Poway] and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
Box 37, Folder 2

Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process March 1994

Scope and Content Note

News updates from the Peace Watch and Coalition for Jewish Concerns- Amcha.
Box 37, Folder 3

Panorama Russian-Language Newspaper December 1982-December 1993

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the Russian-language newspaper documenting Soviet-Jewish issues and including activities of Zev Yaroslavsky. Also referenced are the Soviet dissident Semyon Livshits and the Mayor of Moscow, Yu M. Luzhkov's visit to L.A.
Box 37, Folder 4

Passover (1 of 2) April 2000-April 2004

Scope and Content Note

Various editions of the Hebrew-English and the Hebrew-Russian Passover Haggadahs.
Box 37, Folder 5

Passover (2 of 2) April 2000-April 2004

Scope and Content Note

Various editions of the Hebrew-English and the Hebrew-Russian Passover Haggadahs.
Box 38, Folder 1

Pensions for Soviet Dissidents Refused by Israel August 1997-January 1999

Scope and Content Note

Genya Intrator's news items regarding the Israeli Government's refusal to provide Soviet émigrés with pensions.
Box 38, Folder 2

Plays written by Frumkin 1952, 1973

Scope and Content Note

Original scripts for plays written during Frumkin's college years at NYU as well as later productions as an adult in L.A. including: "What are They Doing to us Now?" and "The Silent Scream."
Box 38, Folder 3

Political Issues in U.S. April 1992-July 1995

Scope and Content Note

Diverse American political issues including Soviet refugees, Jonathan Pollard, and Darrell Issa's campaign to become a Senator. Also correspondence from Senators and Congressmen.
Box 38, Folder 4

Pollard (1 of 3) June 1990-June 1991

Scope and Content Note

Personal letters from Jonathan Pollard and responses to Frumkin from Senators.
Box 38, Folder 5

Pollard (2 of 3) October 1990-October 1991

Scope and Content Note

A court motion dated September 1991 to withdraw Pollard's guilty plea and a Resolution from The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. Also newspaper articles from "The Wall Street Journal," "The Washington Post," and the "Jewish Journal" including articles by Pollard's attorney Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard Law School Professor. Also Frumkin's handwritten manuscript of a Pollard article.
Box 38, Folder 6

Pollard (3 of 3) February 1991

Scope and Content Note

An 83 paged, single-spaced "letter" from Pollard to Rabbi Werb, which Frumkin indicated may have been written in the Summer of 1990 before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Handwritten letters from Morris Pollard to Frumkin on University of Notre Dame letterhead dated 24 February 1991 and 16 March 1991.
Box 39, Folder 1

Pollard 1995 (1 of 4) December 1994-December 1995

Scope and Content Note

A letter from Oskar Schindler's wife appealing for President Clinton to intervene with regard to Pollard's sentence. A statement by John Loftus that Pollard was blamed for disclosing secrets to the USSR, which CIA agent Aldrich Ames had confessed to. Alan Dershowitz's reference to the 85 members of the Knesset who sponsored a bill granting Pollard Israeli citizenship.
Box 39, Folder 2

Pollard 1995 (2 of 4) January -November 1994

Scope and Content Note

An excerpt from Howard Teicher's book, "Twin Pillars to Desert Storm: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush."
Box 39, Folder 3

Pollard 1995 (3 of 4) September 1990-October 1993

Scope and Content Note

Fumkin's editorial "I Really Didn't Believe it Could Happen Here" and "Yes, it could Happen Here and it still Does." A handwritten note by Morris Pollard to Frumkin on University of Notre Dame letterhead dated 22 August 1992. August 1992 article in "New Dimensions" and February 1993 article from "The Jerusalem Post Magazine." Photocopies of a few pages from Elliot Goldenberg's book, "The Spy Who Knew Too Much" as well as a 12 October 1993 feature article about the book in the "Jewish Journal."
Box 39, Folder 4

Pollard 1995 (4 of 4) December 1992-March 1994

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "The New York Times," "Los Angeles Times," "The New Republic," "The Wall Street Journal," and the "Palm Beach Post."
Box 39, Folder 5

Pollard 1996 January 1996-April 1998

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the "Chicago Tribune" "The Jerusalem Post," and "The New York Times" reporting amongst other items that Pollard became an Israeli citizen on 24 January 1996 and an appeal from Elie Wiesel.
Box 39, Folder 6

Pollard 1997-1998 May 1997-May 1998

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the "Heritage Southwest Jewish Press" as well as an article by Dennis Prager in "The Jewish Journal" including the topic of Pollard's life sentence for giving secrets such as the Saad 16 ballistic missile plant in northern Iraq and the names of German companies that helped build Iraqi chemical weapons facilities to Colonel Aviem Sella.
Box 39, Folder 7

Polovets' 65th Birthday Party 2000

Scope and Content Note

A list of the invited guests and an itemized list of expenses to the birthday honoring the founder of the Russian language newspaper "Panorama."
Box 39, Folder 8

Pozner, Russian TV Commentator 2000

Scope and Content Note

A transcript of a June 2000 PBS interview with Vladimir Pozner, a Russian television commentator who worked for the KGB's Novosty Press Agency.
Box 39, Folder 9

Prisoners in Russia 1993

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Jews desirous of emigrating to Israel, but instead being held prisoners in Russia including from Semyon Livshits and Ilya Solomonik.
Box 40, Folder 1

Protocols of the Elders of Zion 1958

Scope and Content Note

A 24 March 1958 paper by Frumkin for NYU, notes in Russian and an article produced by the "Encyclopedia Britannica Library Research Service."
Box 40, Folder 2

Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty February -June 1993

Scope and Content Note

Articles reg: Radio Free Europe (RFE) operation in Munich, slated to become part of the Voice of America during the Clinton Administration as a cost-saving device. Former President Gorbachev affirmed in the German press that the continuation of RFE's programs in twelve languages in the former USSR was a stabilizing factor. Endorsements of RFE were also provided by Senator Joseph Biden and former Warsaw ghetto fighter Marek Edelman.
Box 40, Folder 3

Refuseniks and Refugees (1 of 2) October 1989-March 1991

Scope and Content Note

Multiple lists of names, addresses, and telephone numbers of Soviet refuseniks and when they first applied for emigration. Also included is an open letter from The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) informing cooperating agencies of policies in the U.S. Consul's immigration practices that would change in Moscow. An article in "The Jerusalem Post Magazine" by Irwin Cotler, Natan Sharansky's attorney.
Box 40, Folder 4

Refuseniks and Refugees (2 of 2) March 1991-May 1992

Scope and Content Note

Articles and letters regarding immigration to Israel of Soviet Jews during the period January-November 1990. A letter to Frumkin from the U.S. Department of State regarding his desire to increase the quota of Soviet Jews permitted to immigrate, despite Moscow's restriction to less than the U.S. quota. A January 1992 list of refuseniks disseminated by the "Union of Councils for Soviet Jews." Personal appeals by various Russian Jews.
Box 40, Folder 5

Republican Party in California September 1993-June 1994

Scope and Content Note

Form letter appointing Frumkin to the California Republican Party Central Committee. Also included is a "Forward" article from June 1994 indicating Russian émigrés were leaning towards the Republican party.
Box 40, Folder 6

Russian Anti-Semitism February 1990-November 1991 (1 of 3) 1982-January 1996

Scope and Content Note

Lev Korneyev's article "Along the Road of Aggression and Racism," published in "Ogonyok" on 27 November 1982 and translated into English by David Pearl. The complete Russian 64 page text of V. Prudnik's propaganda "Zionist Lobby in the U.S." published by the Belarus State Publishing House in 1984 with a 9 page overview in English. V. Begun's manuscript discussing "zemlyachestvos" (associations of Fellow-countrymen).
Box 41, Folder 1

Russian Anti-Semitism February 1990-November 1991 (2 of 3) August 1989-July 1990

Scope and Content Note

Walter Laqueur's article "From Russia with Hate," published in the 5 February 1990 issue of "The New Republic." Russian fax and Frumkin's translation of Semyon Reznik's article "Soviet Nazis Invade Washington," noting that anti-Semites including Vadim Kozhinov, Stanislav Kuniaev, Sergei Lykoshin, Valentin Rasputin, Petr Palamarchuk, and Leonid Borodinwere invited to speak at the Kennan Institute in April 1990. Vyacheslav Yerokhin's article "Who will Halt the Aggressor?" and Michael Chlenov's "The Last Journey of Soviet Jewry."
Box 41, Folder 2

Russian Anti-Semitism February 1990-November 1991 (3 of 3) October 1990-December 1991

Scope and Content Note

Russian and English translations regarding the imprisonment of Mark Glizer for having found a buyer for a friend's car. In addition, there is Sergei Lezov's report on the gala opening of "The World of Anne Frank" exhibit at the State Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow on 28 November 1991.
Box 41, Folder 3

Russian Anti-Semitism June 1992-July 1994 (1 of 2) June 1992-October 1995

Scope and Content Note

Donna Arzt's article "Soviet Anti-Semitism: Legal Responses in an Age of Glasnost," reprinted from the "Temple International and Comparative Law Journal." Union of Councils for Soviet Jews' materials from June 1992-December 1992, including David Waksberg's "Soviet Anti-Semitism through Perestroika and Beyond." Natasha Stonov's translations of Russian newspaper articles from the Fall of 1992 and Judy Patkin's 54 page "Trip to Ukraine & Russia," printed in October 1993.
Box 41, Folder 4

Russian Anti-Semitism June 1992-July 1994 (2 of 2) June 1992-October 1995

Scope and Content Note

Articles published in the "Monitor," from 2 May 1994 - 8 July 1994. Union of Councils for Soviet Jews' updates on refuseniks.
Box 42, Folder 1

Russian Anti-Semitism June 1992-May 1995 (1 of 2) June 1992-October 1994

Scope and Content Note

B'nai B'rith's August 1992 "International Council Country Reports on Jewish Communities Worldwide." Copies of the "Monitor," from 1993-1994. There is also Robert Brym's article "Anti-Semitism in Moscow: Results of an October 1992 Survey," which was published in "Slavic Review" for Spring 1993 and the UCSJ Index of Recent Anti-Semitic Incidents/Reports prepared for the November 1993 Board Meeting. In addition, there are copies of the "Monitor" from 1994, including a 28 October article "Archives Show KGB Obsession with Sakharov."
Box 42, Folder 2

Russian Anti-Semitism June 1992-May 1995 (2 of 2) January -September 1995

Scope and Content Note

Jeanne Butterfield's January 1995 report "New Asylum Rule Released, Effective January 1995." Material from the "Monitor," including Alexander Frenkel's "The Year in review for Jews of the Former Soviet Union" and Leonid Stonov's "Russia: Lurching Toward Fascism." Data from the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, such as Micah Naftalin's testimony before a Congressional Commission entitled "Religious Liberty in the OSCE: Present and Future."
Box 42, Folder 3

Russian Anti-Semitism 1996 February -May 1996

Scope and Content Note

Union of Councils' press releases on Dmitrii Fattakhov's release from prison and emigration to Israel in February 1996 after being falsely accused of murder in Uzbek in April 1995. There are seven reports produced by the American Association of Russian Jews on various former Soviet countries (e.g. Ukraine, Latvia, et al). Report by the Bay Area Council entitled: "Antisemitism in St. Petersburg, Russia: Experiences of Jews in 1995." The text of Leonid Stonov's statement on "Anti-Semitism in the Former Soviet Union (FSU)" before a Congressional Subcommittee.
Box 42, Folder 4

Russian Anti-Semitism 1997 June 1997-December 1998

Scope and Content Note

Report: "DOS Report on Religious Persecution: FSU Country Reports; (July 22, 1997)." Material from The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews including Tbilisi Jews denied the return of their synagogue. Department of State report: "Antisemitism and the Persecution of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Former Soviet Union."
Box 43, Folder 1

Schreiber, Candidate for L.A. City Council November 1999

Scope and Content Note

Letter from Scott Schreiber to Frumkin
Box 43, Folder 2

Shoah Visual History Foundation June 1996-July 1998

Scope and Content Note

Four copies of the newsletter produced by Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Box 43, Folder 3

Show Business 1968-1970

Scope and Content Note

A draft of the play "What are They doing to us Now," when it was titled "The Silent Scream" along with flyers advertising the play. In addition, there are "The Unredeemed," a play based on the Passover Hagadah and a second draft of an April 1968 "Seder for Russian Jews."
Box 43, Folder 4

Shvut Ami

Scope and Content Note

List of books by Shvut Ami, a Jerusalem organization teaching Judaism to Russian émigrés.
Box 43, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles 1990 (1 of 2) 1990

Scope and Content Note

A ten page fax in Russian from Andranik Migranian, a visiting lecturer in Economics at San Diego State University and Frumkin's translation for publication in the "Los Angeles Times." There is also a computer print-out listing 495 Russian articles published in Panorama between 14 November 1981 and 5 October 1990, written by Frumkin.
Box 43, Folder 6

Si's Scribbles 1990 (2 of 2) 1990

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation from the Russian of Valerii Begishev's article "The Specter of Hunger in the Service of Soviet Partocracy."
Box 43, Folder 7

Si's Scribbles 1991 (1 of 2) 1991

Scope and Content Note

Tunne Kelam's article "Selling out the Baltics," published in 8 January 1991 issue of "The New York Times." Commission from the "Los Angeles Times" for Frumkin to translate Melor Sturua's article "Personalities and Politics" and an article by Andranik Migranian of Moscow, who in 1991 was a visiting lecturer in Economics at San Diego State University.
Box 43, Folder 8

Si's Scribbles 1991 (2 of 2) 1991

Scope and Content Note

Essay by Henry Frenkel, who had been in radiation control in Byelorussia, entitled "Life After Chernobyl." Frumkin later published this as "They are Poisoning the People." Includes Frumkin's "Questions People Ask about the Holocaust" and an article by Alexander Polovets.
Box 44, Folder 1

Si's Scribbles 1992 (1 of 2) 1992

Scope and Content Note

Evgenii Manin's seven page Russian response to Frumkin's article on Jerusalem, which was published in a 1989 edition of "Panorama" resulting in Frumkin's rejoinder "Manin Forgive Me for I have Sinned."
Box 44, Folder 2

Si's Scribbles 1992 (2 of 2) 1992

Scope and Content Note

A reprint of Alan Dershowitz's article "Prosecute the Balkan Murderers" as well as Natan Sharansky's "A Dangerous Message,"published in the 27 August 1992 issue of "The Jerusalem Report." Frumkin's translation of an article by Mark Slobodin and Yosif Lakhman appeared as "What the Execution Record Tells Us." Also included is the original pen-and-ink drawing for "Graffiti for Intellectuals."
Box 44, Folder 3

Si's Scribbles 1993 1993

Scope and Content Note

Si's Scribbles from 1993.
Box 44, Folder 4

Si's Scribbles 1994 1994

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's essays on Anchorage, Alaska and "Aeroflot, Kafka, and the Moscow Circus" and report on his trip to Moscow.
Box 44, Folder 5

Si's Scribbles 1995 1995

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's essays including "'You Should Have Died in the Death Camp,' New York Jews Told Her."
Box 44, Folder 6

Social Security Insurance Crisis March 1994-October 1995

Scope and Content Note

Articles concerning the denial of SSI to immigrants until they become citizens as reported in the "Los Angeles Times;" original letters from concerned Russian immigrants; and a West Hollywood Resolution against the proposed curtailment.
Box 45, Folder 1

Soka Gakkai International University May - July 1994

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, business cards, and an essay on Frumkin's trip to Tokyo as he opened a Holocaust exhibition in Tokyo on behalf of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Box 45, Folder 2

Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, Checking Account December 1996-January 1998

Scope and Content Note

Itemized list of expenses paid for through the Coast Federal Bank checking account.
Box 45, Folder 3

Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, Documents (1 of 2) June 1972-July 1990

Scope and Content Note

Contents include a report on the "Candlelight Walk" of December 1972; material on the Jackson-Vanik Bill; Frumkin's biographical sketch; typed history of the organization from 1969-1983; acknowledgement of a $500 contribution from Congressman Henry Waxman; financial contributors from 1989; list of names and addresses of Soviet Jews requesting books on Judaism; list of names, addresses and telephone numbers of volunteers; summary of Rabbi Jeffrey Perry-Marx's January 1990 trip to Vilnius and Kaunas.
Box 45, Folder 4

Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, Documents (2 of 2) August 1990-May 1999

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's biographical sketch; press release regarding $200,000 pledged for "Operation Exodus" to assist 100,000 to emigrate in three years; open letter regarding the 1990 "Ride to Freedom" program enabling Jews to leave the USSR and emigrate to Israel; Frumkin's translation of Yakov Feigin's 16 March 1991 letter to Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky; 30 September 1992 fax in Russian from Michael Joffe and Yuri Chernyak of MIT with Frumkin's translation entitled "Come to MIT." Obituary of Kathy Frumkin in the 26 August 1994 issue of "Heritage Southwest Jewish Press."
Box 45, Folder 5

Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, Investments December 1987-February 1997

Scope and Content Note

Monthly statements from the Dreyfus Investment fund, which varied in asset amount from about $2,500 to $7,000. An August 1988 notification to pay taxes of $1,029.21 from the State of California Employment Development Department.
Box 45, Folder 6

Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, Taxes 1980-1996

Scope and Content Note

Tax returns, which include a list of addresses of donors. Contributions ranged from $39,451 in 1990 to $12,424.17 in donations for the tax year 1993.
Box 45, Folder 7

Soviet Humor 1978-1997

Scope and Content Note

Contents include Frumkin's review of Emil Draitser's 1978 book, "Forbidden Laughter," a copy of which is included. Signed copy of Draitser's "Sociological aspects of the Russian Jewish jokes of the exodus," published in the 1994 edition of "Humor." Frumkin's essay "Forbidden Chuckles through the Crack in the Curtain."
Box 46, Folder 1

Soviet Psychology and Sociology 1983-1989

Scope and Content Note

Dmitry Mikheyev's 56 page manuscript "The Soviet Mentality," published in volume 8 (1987) of "Political Psychology." Manuscript by Alex Shtromas entitled "To Fight Communism: Why and How?"
Box 46, Folder 2

Spying on behalf of the KGB on Soviet Dissidents by Larisa Vilenskaya October 1983-March 1995

Scope and Content Note

Personal letters expressing concern by organizations in southern California that Larisa Vilenskaya was being paid by the KGB to inform on activities in southern California.
Box 46, Folder 3

Stone, Candidate for Judge in Beverly Hills November 1999-February 2000

Scope and Content Note

Publicity material and resume for Richard Stone.
Box 46, Folder 4

Survivors of the Holocaust from the former Soviet Union 1988-1998

Scope and Content Note

Materials (almost exclusively in Russian) from the Association of Holocaust Survivors from Former USSR, whose President was Semen Shpitalnik and Senior Advisor was Frumkin. Data includes handwritten minutes of their meetings. Various mailing lists containing 133, 268, 308 and 317 members, which indicates the name of the ghetto or concentration camp in which they were interred during the period 1941-1944.
Box 46, Folder 5

Sybert, Republican Congressional Candidate July 1996-April 1997

Scope and Content Note

A letter from Frumkin requesting Natan Sharansky to schedule a photo opportunity with Rich Sybert; Also Rich Sybert's campaign material in his unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Congress.
Box 46, Folder 6

Temple Shalom for the Arts May 1997-January 1999

Scope and Content Note

Board of Trustee Minutes and Temple Shalom for the Arts newsletters.
Box 46, Folder 7

Term Papers 1960-1964

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's term papers submitted to San Fernando Valley State College.
Box 47, Folder 1

Terrorism 1993-December 1999

Scope and Content Note

Material includes class schedule and course outline for Arthur Bernstein's class for the Plato Society (Perpetual Learning And Teaching Organization) of UCLA. There's also articles from the "U.S. News & World Report." There are two Anti-Defamation League Special Reports entitled, "Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood" and "Hizballah and Iranian- Sponsored Terrorism."
Box 47, Folder 2

Terrorism Task Force April 1992-December 1994

Scope and Content Note

House Republican Research Committee Reports on Iran, Islam and North Korea.
Box 47, Folder 3

THEM Magazine, Conceptualizing a new Business November 1988-February 1989

Scope and Content Note

Contents include a 21 page mailing list indicating customers who have paid for their subscriptions to "THEM."
Box 47, Folder 4

THEM Magazine, Firm's Start-Up December 1988-April 1990

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of articles by political scientists and journalists from the former Soviet Union and Eastern block countries, including Belotserkovsky, Vail, Genis, Lev Alburt, Matlin, Mihajlo Mihajlov, and Shalkhnovsky. Business plan from The G.L.O.S.S. Company in Texas, which could serve as a guide for THEM Magazine. Financial data on Frumkin's start-up magazine as well as an 11 August 1988 article in the "Los Angeles Times" announcing the inauguration of Frumkin's and Alexander Polovets' new publication.
Box 47, Folder 5

THEM Magazine, Process of Translation 1988

Scope and Content Note

Manuscripts of the articles in the following folder. Manuscripts include Mihajlo Mihajlov's analysis of Orest Maltsev.
Box 47, Folder 6

THEM Magazine, Proposed Articles 1988

Scope and Content Note

Contents include Alex Kharkovsky's article "Nobel Laureate and the Atom Bomb." Lev Navrozov's manuscript "I.N.F. Magic: It Wouldn't Fool a Seven-Year Old- Why is it Fooling our Congress?" Lev Alburt's "Know Thine Enemy: The Origin of Soviet Anti-Americanism." Grigori Ryskin's "To Hatch a Hard-Boiled Egg." Vladimir Green's "The Time of Norman Green." Vadim Belotserkovsky's article "The Nazi Movement in the Soviet Union."
Box 48, Folder 1

THEM Magazine, Queries to the Editor November 1988-March 1989

Scope and Content Note

Letters to the Editor of "THEM" and letters to the editors of other published newspapers concerning "THEM."
Box 48, Folder 2

Trade linked with emigration for Soviet Jews March 1973-February 1989

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "Los Angeles Times," "Newsweek," and "The Washington Times" re: Armand Hammer's trade negotiations with the Soviets and the Vanik bill. Photocopies from Robert C. Williams' book "Russian Art and American Money" and Charles Levinson's "Vodka Cola." Senator William Armstrong's printed statement on the U.S. ban against importing items made by slave labor.
Box 48, Folder 3

Translation into Russian April 1987-January 1994

Scope and Content Note

Letters and financial data regarding the translation into Russian and publishing of Dennis Prager's "Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism." Invoices and financial documents recording offsetting donations from Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, Congressman Henry Waxman, Mel Levine, and Howard Berman.
Box 48, Folder 4

Trip to Estonia in 1987 March 1974-July 1987

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's letter to the Soviet Consulate expressing concern that he would be considered a Soviet citizen, if he visited the USSR. Reports by various people on their trips to see dissidents in Moscow, Leningrad, and Tallin, Estonia. Maps of Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev and sketches on how to locate the synagogues. 64 page packet useful for Jewish tourists to visit Russian refuseniks.
Box 48, Folder 5

Trip to Russia in 1989 by the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (1 of 2) October 1989-January 1990

Scope and Content Note

Reports by various people on their trips to see dissidents in Moscow, Leningrad, Minsk, Bobruisk, Kharkov, Odessa, Lvov, and Tashkent as well as Vilnius, Lithuania and Riga, Latvia and Tallin, Estonia. "Adopt-a-Family" Program materials.
Box 48, Folder 6

Trip to Russia in 1989 by the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (2 of 2) November -December 1989

Scope and Content Note

List of names, addresses, and telephone numbers of Jewish refuseniks in Russia, Lithuania, Byelorussia. Information about Kompass, a Boston-based Soviet-American media company headed by John M. Rose, Jr. Brief descriptions of refuseniks not permitted to leave the USSR. Reports by various American Jews who visited Russian refuseniks. Revised itinerary of 16-27 October trip to Moscow, Leningrad, and excursions to Odessa, Kiev, Kharkov, Minsk, Vilnius, Riga and other cities in order to visit Jewish activists.
Box 49, Folder 1

Trip to Russia for Frumkin and Zev Yaroslavsky May 1990

Scope and Content Note

A report on Frumkin's and Yaroslavsky's visit to Moscow in May 1990, where they met with dissidents from Bylorussia and Kiev as well as visiting the Arkhipova Choral Synagogue. The account also narrates that Frumkin and Yaroslvsky went to the U.S. Embassy, waited in line at McDonalds, and met with VAAD.
Box 49, Folder 2

Trip to Russia sponsored by NDI February -June 1991

Scope and Content Note

A letter from Yaroslavsky regarding the National Democratic Institute's invitation to conduct seminars on local government for elected officials in the USSR. A report summarizing the items addressed included human rights, the Moscow Helsinki Group Prisoner List, the Moscow Jewish Scientific Center, and granting asylum to Soviet military personnel in Germany.
Box 49, Folder 3

Ukrainian mis-statements by CBS' "60 Minutes" December 1994-January 1995

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's letter expressing disappointment with "60 Minutes" segment entitled "The Ugly Face of Freedom," which the Jewish community held misrepresented the facts of Jewish life in the Ukraine.
Box 49, Folder 4

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (1 of 4) October 1989-April 1992

Scope and Content Note

An open letter from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) regarding changes in U.S. Consular Practices in Moscow; a Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) update on refuseniks; and a World Jewish Congress assessment of Soviet Jewry. Articles from "The New York Times," the "B'nai B'rith Messenger," and "Panorama." Materials from the Israeli Consulate in New York and the addresses and telephone numbers of the UCSJ Executive Committee for 1991.
Box 49, Folder 5

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (2 of 4) August 1992-Juky 1994

Scope and Content Note

March and April 1993 articles on Russia's anti-democracy movement from "The Jewish Journal." Issues of the "Monitor" from May 1994-July 1994. Kevin Fedarko's article on Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the 11 July 1994 issue of "Time."
Box 49, Folder 6

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (3 of 4) March 1992-September 1996

Scope and Content Note

Legislative updates pending in the U.S. Congress regarding Russian Jews. A list of the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the January 1993 Executive Committee for the UCSJ. A report on Russian refuseniks, including that of Abdumanob Pulatov, Evgeniy Berenshteyn, Iosif Koenov, and Dmitrii Fattakhov. Agenda and Minutes of the 1996 UCSJ Annual Meeting.
Box 49, Folder 7

Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (4 of 4) September 1996-September 1997

Scope and Content Note

Material includes UCSJ's Government Affairs 1996 in Review. Updates on refuseniks Isaak Kaufman, Rudolf Masarsky, and Alexander Nikitin and political prisoners: Albert Lavrenev, Semyon Lifshits, Iosif Koenov. UCSJ report on the return of Jewish communal property in Baku, Chernigov, Khmelnitskaya, Novosibirsk. Report on Leonid Stonov's December 1996 and December 1997 trips to the former USSR.
Box 50, Folder 1

United States Sociology February 1991-November 1993

Scope and Content Note

Jack Miles' article, "The Struggle for the Bottom Rung; Blacks vs. Browns," in the October 1992 issue of "The Atlantic." Charles Krauthammer's articles, "The New Assault on Bourgeois Life;" and "Leaving a Mark on U.S. Culture" in the "Los Angeles Times." Michael Medved's article "Popular Culture and the War Against Standards" in Hillsdale College's "Imprimis"
Box 50, Folder 2

Unz, Chairman Voters Rights May 1999-August 2000

Scope and Content Note

Editorials in "My Nation" by Ron Unz concerning his disagreement with whole language and bi-lingual education in the public schools. Matthew Miller's article, "Man with a Mission: Ron Unz's Improbable Assault on the Powers that be in California," in the July 1999 issue of "The New Republic." An article on Unz's efforts against Affirmative Action in a January 1999 issue of "The Sacramento Bee."
Box 50, Folder 3

Unz's Proposition 227: Anti-bilingual Education Initiative in CA January -May 1998

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper articles on Ron Unz's Proposition 227 in California, which opposed bi-lingual education.
Box 50, Folder 4

Uskolovsky not permitted to ride bus to Pacific Palisades High October 1987-July 1998

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence regarding Julie Uskolovsky, who was not allowed to ride a bus to Pacific Palisades High School because busing was considered to be only for ethnic minorities.
Box 50, Folder 5

Vartanov's book, "Assyrians in the Siberian Exile" 1994-1995

Scope and Content Note

Elia Vartanov's resume and photocopied pages in Russian from his book, which concerns the KGB precursor (NKVD) sending Assyrians to Siberia.
Box 50, Folder 6

Vouchers for Private Education June -December 1995

Scope and Content Note

A copy of the Initiative for Private Education as well as letters from The Rutherford Institute and the Hoover Institution.
Box 50, Folder 7

Washington Marched on by the AAJFSU April 1997

Scope and Content Note

A fax and newspapera articles regarding Leonid Stonov's march of 5,000 Russian emigrants on the capitol. Photographs of protesting World War II veterans wearing their medals are included.
Box 50, Folder 8

Weeks, Columnist in "The Washington Times" October 1990-April 1995

Scope and Content Note

Albert L. Weeks authored the first book in English on Peter Nikitich Tkachev and desired Frumkin's assistance in having it translated into Russian.
Box 50, Folder 9

Welfare Reform Reconciliation Act of 1996 August 1996-February 1997

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper articles on the Governors Association's compromise to welfare reform, which proposed that MediCal benefits for legal immigrants be continued.
Box 50, Folder 10

"Why the Jews," a book by Dennis Prager September 1990-March 1992

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence regarding the translation and publishing costs of Dennis Prager's book "Why the Jews?" A manuscript edition of the book's "Acknowledgment" indicates that the publication costs were paid by Zev Yaroslavsky, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Seymour Matanky and publishing in Russian was done by Alexander Polovets company, Almanac Inc. of Los Angeles. Faxed correpondence indicates that Frumkin was also interested in translating Max Dimont's "Jews, God, and History" as well as Ehrenburg's "The Black Book" for use in the U.S., Russia and Israel. Letters indicate that the Russian publication of "8 Questions" was delayed due to anti-Semitism.
Box 50, Folder 11

Wilson, Senator Pete November 1987-June 1990

Scope and Content Note

David Willman's article "Can Pete Wilson's low profile take him on the high road to victory?" in the December 1987 issue of "California Journal." Manuscript edition of an English translation of an interview, in the March 1998 issue of "Panorama." A letter from Wilson acknowledging Frumkin's support for Wilson during his campaign to become Governor. Letters from Wilson demonstrating his intervention on behalf of individual Soviet Jews.
Box 51, Folder 1

Witness Newspaper, Entire Run October 1987-February 1988

Scope and Content Note

The entire run of "Witness's" essays along with letters to the editor. Examples of the articles include Lev Navrozov"s "I.N.F. Magic," Lev Alburt's "Know Thine Enemy," and Grigori Ryskin's "To Hatch a Hard-Boiled Egg." A manuscript edition of Lt. General William E. Odom's testimony before the U.S. Senate is also included.
Box 51, Folder 2

Witness Newspaper, Models for October 1987-February 1988

Scope and Content Note

Copies of other publications that have a focus on Russia.
Box 51, Folder 3

Witness Newspaper, Possible Essays by Russians & E Europeans

Scope and Content Note

A series of essays in manuscript form, sixteen of which were authored by Mihajlo Mihajlov, and one by Lev Nazrozov, one by T. Schuman, and three by Lev Alburtas. Other items include Navrozov's curriculum vitae and portraits of the authors.
Box 51, Folder 4

Addenda: A 1978-1988

Scope and Content Note

Rael Jean Isaac's pamphlet, entitled "The anti-New Jewish Agenda" and articles from "The American Spectator" including Michael Ledeen's "God is on our Side" and David Brock's "Christic Mystics and their Drug-Running Theories."
Box 51, Folder 5

Addenda: B January 1985-December 1987

Scope and Content Note

Trude Weiss-Rosmarin's article "A Personal Perspective" and a copy of Shirley Hobbs Scheibla's essay "Anti-Apartheid or Pro-Soviet?"
Box 51, Folder 6

Addenda: California Newspapers August 1969-October 1975

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper articles from the "Jewish Chronicle," "This World," and the "California Jewish Record" regarding various topics on Soviet Jews.
Box 51, Folder 7

Addenda: California Council for Soviet Jews September 1971-March 1989

Scope and Content Note

Letter to the L.A. Police Department regarding the Third Annual Candlelight Walk for Soviet Jews in 1971. Yaroslavsky's letter opposing Mack Truck's establishment of a truck factory in the USSR. Articles include Arch Puddington's entitled "Are Things Getting Better in Eastern Europe" in the August 1983 issue of "Commentary" and Norman Podhoretz's "Israel: A Lamentation from the Future."
Box 51, Folder 8

Addenda: D October 1969-August 1989

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence with individuals, last names beginning with "D," including Consul General Dinstein, Ambassador Debrynin, Donnelly of KCET, and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Box 51, Folder 9

Addenda: E February 1970-December 1987

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence with individuals, last names beginning with "E," including Samuel Elkin and Mitchell Egers and publications such as the overview of Zev Yaroslavsky in "Esquire" and the Wichita "Eagle-Beacon."
Box 51, Folder 10

Addenda: F December 1992

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the newspaper "Forward" regarding the Clinton Administration.
Box 51, Folder 11

Addenda: G March - May 1990

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the newspaper "Golos," a Russian language weekly.
Box 51, Folder 12

Addenda: H September 1977-September 1987

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the newspapers "Herald Examiner" and "Heritage" on themes such as whether Pope Pius XII supported the Nazis as well as the rise in crime by Soviet immigrants. Frumkin's articles on American indifference to tragedy.
Box 51, Folder 13

Addenda: "Heritage Newspaper" April 1970-August 1974

Scope and Content Note

Article on Councilman Tom Bradley's remarks at the Candlelight March for Soviet Jewry. Article concerning Frumkin awarding City Councilman Joel Wachs with the Prisoner of Conscience Medallion and published photo of Frumkin demonstrating outside the Shrine Auditorium. Editorial mentioning Zev Yaroslavsky's and Frumkin's disappointment with President Nixon's visit to Moscow as well as Frumkin's article "Send Your Cards to Jews of Soviet Union."
Box 51, Folder 14

Addenda: I October 1977-December 1987

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper articles from "Insight" and "Israel Today" by Frumkin including "On Chest Thumping, Public Relations and Jesse Jackson" and "Make us Proud, Jimmy!" Photograph of Frumkin shaking hands with President Reagan, and an article on Frumkin being interviewed on his activism. Article on Professor Ivan F. Martinov as deserving the title of "Righteous Gentile" for protesting anti-Semitic actions at Moscow University.
Box 51, Folder 15

Addenda: J (1 of 2) August 1985-January 1990

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "The Jewish Journal" on Natan Sharansky, refusenik Leonid Lubman, Nazi John Demjanuk on trial for actions in Trawniki, Refusenik Shimon Frumkin in Leningrad and on Soviet Jews.
Box 51, Folder 16

Addenda: J (2 of 2) August 1969-July 1973

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "The Jerusalem Post" on the protest at the Western Wall due to the trial of seven Jews in Leningrad for a purported attempt to hijack a plane to Finland, and on Jesse Zel Lurie's visit to Otkazniki and his insights on Soviet Jews.
Box 52, Folder 1

Addenda: Letters to the Editor of the "Los Angeles Times" August 1975-December 1992

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's letters to the Editor in the 12 February 1978 issue of the "Los Angeles Times" (also 19 August 1975; 22 December 1976; 16 May 1978; 25 January 1988), his article "Can the World Survive the Search for Truth?" in the 26 January 1979 edition of the "Los Angeles Times" and his "Checking Soviets New Mideast Moves" in the 3 February 1980 issue. Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's November 1987 article in the "Los Angeles Times," "Though Things are Better, the Fear Remains for Soviet Jews."
Box 52, Folder 2

Addenda: "Los Angeles Times" (1 of 3) April 1969-December 1972

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the "Los Angeles Times" regarding Israel being convinced that foreign pressure caused Russia to relent with respect to Jewish emigration. Published photo of Councilman Tom Bradley with Senator Alan Cranston marching for Soviet Jews in October 1969. Article on the cancellation of the 1970 and 1971 U.S. tour by the Bolshoi, due to "Zionist extremists." Article on the Jewish Defense League picketing the Ukrainian Dance Company at the Greek Theater in July 1972.
Box 52, Folder 3

Addenda: "Los Angeles Times" (2 of 3) October 1972-August 1973

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the "Los Angeles Times" regarding Senator William Fulbright's view that trade should not be used to interfere with Soviet emigration policy contrasted with Frumkin's rebuttal published two weeks later. Zev Yaroslavsky's 23 March 1973 letter to the "Los Angeles Times."
Box 52, Folder 4

Addenda: "Los Angeles Times" (3 of 3) August 1973-September 1975

Scope and Content Note

Articles from the "Los Angeles Times" on topics such as Senator Henry Jackson linking trade with emigration; phone callers not connected by the international operator after David A. Azbel's hunger strike; and Kirov Ballet stars, Valery and Galina Panov's hunger strike in Leningrad. William F. Buckley's article: "Courage of the Jews Keeps Pressure on Russia." Frumkin's September 1975 article "The Word that Jews Seldom Utter in Public."
Box 52, Folder 5

Addenda: Magazines "M" October 1984-May 1989

Scope and Content Note

Zvi Gitelman's article on Soviet Jewish emigration from "Moment," Paul Berman's article on Hiroshima in the October 1984 issue of "Mother Jones," and Joel Carmichael's article on Christianity and the KGB in the May 1985 edition of "Midstream."
Box 52, Folder 6

Addenda: New York Times March 1985-June 1992

Scope and Content Note

"New York Times" articles on the role of Anatoly Shcharansky in Israeli politics in the 15 February 1986 issue; Shcharansky's criticism of Soviet policy on Jewish emigration in the 10 December 1986 issue and William Safire's "Reading Anatoly's Mind" in the 26 December 1988 edition of the "NY Times." Articles by A.M. Rosenthal, including his "In Deep Russia, the Camp at the End of the Road," from 13 December 1988. Article by Andrei Voznesensky's on the suffering of Soviet Jews during WWII in the 20 October 1986 edition of the "New York Times."
Box 52, Folder 7

Addenda: Magazines "N" January 1970-October 1992

Scope and Content Note

George F. Will's articles in "Newsweek" on topics such as East-West cultural exchange and Lenin. Mikhail S. Bernstam's, Henry Catto's and Tatyana Tolstaya's articles in "National Review."
Box 52, Folder 8

Addenda: Magazines "O" March 1986 & February 1988

Scope and Content Note

One copy of "Outcry," in which the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews examines persecuted Soviet Jews, such as Anatoly Scharansky and Vladamir Lifshitz. Article in the Orange County Register compared Waldheim with Gorbachev.
Box 52, Folder 9

Addenda: Magazines "R" December 1987-March 1989

Scope and Content Note

Articles from "Reader's Digest" including Richard Nixon's and Jimmy Carter's reflections on Mikhail Gorbachev. Mary Anne Dolan's article on Boris Yeltsin and Dale McFeatters article on Gorbachev from the Rocky Mountain News.
Box 52, Folder 10

Addenda: Magazines "S" March 1985-January 1989

Scope and Content Note

"San Diego Union" articles include the possible contest between Zev Yaroslavsky and Tom Bradley to become L.A.'s next mayor and an article on Soviet refuseniks. "San Diego Tribune" article on Soviet repression, "San Diego Jewish Times" article on Lev and Marina Furman desiring to leave Leningrad for Israel and "San Jose Mercury News" article on Stanford Professor Condoleeza Rice.
Box 52, Folder 11

Addenda: Magazines "T" March 1970-October 1991

Scope and Content Note

"Time" articles on the USSR's newspaper campaign against Zionistic Jews in the 23 March 1970 edition, Soviet baseball in 10 August 1987, and AIDS in the 25 June 1990 edition. Samuel D. Kassow's "Should Soviet Jews Leave" journal article from Tikkun Volume 5 Number 5.
Box 53, Folder 1

Addenda: Magazines "U" December 1987

Scope and Content Note

Articles by Richard Perle on the superpower summit in the 14 December 1987 issue and by Mortimer B. Zuckerman on Gorbachev in the 21 December 1987 edition of "U.S. News & World Report." Advertisement by the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews in the November 1971 issue of "Atlas." Advertising material from Frumkin's company, Universal Drapery Fabrics, Inc.
Box 53, Folder 2

Addenda: Magazines "V" January 1979

Scope and Content Note

Article regarding Robert Manning's disruption of Ahmed al-Shahati's press conference at the Bonaventure Hotel in the 28 January 1979 issue of the "Valley News."
Box 53, Folder 3

Addenda: Magazines "W" August 1985-December 1987

Scope and Content Note

27 January 1986 article on genocide in Ethiopia in the "Wall Street Journal," 4 June 1986 article on the Bern Conference on Human Contacts, 8 August 1985 article on Eduard Shevardnadze's pre-Foreign Minister career in the MVD; a 6 May 1987 article on Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, and the scheduled speeches on Soviet emigration by Natan Sharansky, Ida Nudel, and Elie Wiesel during a demonstration in Washington in the 3 December 1987 edition.
Box 53, Folder 4

Addenda: Radio 1988-1999

Scope and Content Note

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Program Index.
Box 53, Folder 5

Addenda: Radio 1988

Scope and Content Note

Copy of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Program Index, Volume 32 (Numbers 1-52).
Box 53, Folder 6

Addenda: Yaroslavsky Correspondence July 1987

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky to Senators Cranston and Wilson regarding the trade bill with the USSR.
 

Photographs 1969-1989

Scope and Content Note

Photographs from events held by the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews and other activities involving Frumkin, his family and associates.
Box 53, Folder 7

Photographs for 1969-1970 (1 of 4) 1969

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the Simchah Torah march in support of Soviet Jews at Fairfax High School in 1969. Photos of the campaign to mail Soviet Jews Rosh Hashanah greeting cards in September 1969 reported by KABC television station 7. Photos of Nahama Lifschitz's press conference at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in November 1969.
Box 53, Folder 8

Photographs for 1969-1970 (2 of 4) 1969

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the candlelight Walk for Soviet Jews with George Putnam, Steve Allen, and other celebrities participating on 4 December 1969. Photos of Putnam interviewing Frumkin and Zev Yaroslavsky for KTLA News. Photos of the Christmas card and petition program for Russian Jews in December 1969.
Box 53, Folder 9

Photographs for 1969-1970 (3 of 4) 1970

Scope and Content Note

Photos of Zev Yaroslavsky handing out flyers at a demonstration at the Shrine Auditorium when the Moiseyev dancers performed on 7-16 August 1970. Pictures of Frumkin and Zev Yaroslavsky demonstrating for the emigration of Soviet Jews during the 28 May - 6 June Auto Expo. Photos of the picketing on behalf of Soviet Jews outside the Fritchman Auditorium on 7 November 1970.
Box 53, Folder 10

Photographs for 1969-1970 (4 of 4) 1970

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the Candlelight March December 1970.
Box 53, Folder 11

Photographs for 1971-1972 (1 of 3) 1971-1972

Scope and Content Note

Photos of a stage play regarding Soviet Jews.
Box 53, Folder 12

Photographs for 1971-1972 (2 of 3) 1971-1972

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the 28 May - 6 June Auto Expo 1971 at L.A. Sports Arena.
Box 53, Folder 13

Photographs for 1971-1972 (3 of 3) 1971-1972

Scope and Content Note

Chanuka h cards.
Box 54, Folder 1

Photographs for 1972 (1 of 4) 1971-1972

Scope and Content Note

Photos of City Councilman Joel Wachs presenting a City of Los Angeles proclamation to Boris Kochubievsky. Pictures of Zev Yaroslavsky participating in a welcome for Boris in L.A. in May 1972 after Boris served 3 years in a labor camp. Photos of Frumkin and Kochubievsky being interviewed on radio station KABC.
Box 54, Folder 2

Photographs for 1972 (2 of 4) 1971

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the Candlelight Walk 1971 with shofar being blown and Councilman Tom Bradley participating.
Box 54, Folder 3

Photographs for 1972 (3 of 4) 1973

Scope and Content Note

Photos depicting the attaching of bumper stickers as a means of protesting against Pepsico's decision to build a factory in Russia and the import of vodka into the U.S.
Box 54, Folder 4

Photographs for 1972 (4 of 4) 1973

Scope and Content Note

Photos of a pro-Soviet Jews demonstration at I. Magnin.
Box 54, Folder 5

Photographs for 1973 (1 of 2) 1973

Scope and Content Note

Photos of Frumkin's and Zev Yaroslavsky's trip to Moscow to see Soviet refuseniks, especially the Panovs. Also tourist sites such as Red Square and the Moscow synagogue.
Box 54, Folder 6

Photographs for 1973 (2 of 2) 1973

Scope and Content Note

Photos of Frumkin's and Zev Yaroslavsky's trip to Moscow to see Soviet refuseniks, including the Panovs. Also tourist sites such as Red Square and the Moscow synagogue.
Box 54, Folder 7

Photographs for 1973-1975 (1 of 6) 1973-1975

Scope and Content Note

Photos of Frumkin's and Yaroslavsky's demonstration against the lack of Jewish emigration from the USSR at the L.A. Forum in May 1973.
Box 54, Folder 8

Photographs for 1973-1975 (2 of 6) 1973-1975

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the protest on behalf of Boris Penson and other imprisoned Soviet artists.
Box 54, Folder 9

Photographs for 1973-1975 (3 of 6) 1973-1975

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the candlelight caravan to San Clemente as Leonid Brezhnev visited Richard Nixon at the western White House. Includes images of helium-filled balloons with the message "Brezhnev, let the Jews go," which were floated above the secluded compound.
Box 54, Folder 10

Photographs for 1973-1975 (4 of 6) 1973-1975

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the telephone campaign.
Box 54, Folder 11

Photographs for 1973-1975 (5 of 6) 1973-1975

Scope and Content Note

Photos of Frumkin and Yaroslavsky outside the Austrian Consulate in L.A.
Box 54, Folder 12

Photographs for 1973-1975 (6 of 6) 1973-1975

Scope and Content Note

Photos of Frumkin and Yaroslavsky destroying credit cards outside the Standard Oil Building as covered by television crews.
Box 54, Folder 13

Photographs for 1973-1974 (1 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Black and white enlargements of Frumkin, Yaroslavsky and others dressed in prison uniforms protesting the plight of Soviet Jews outside the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard.
Box 54, Folder 14

Photographs for 1973-1974 (2 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Photo of the hull of the Russian ship Gavriil Derzhavin with the slogan "Let Jews Go" on its side.
Box 54, Folder 15

Photographs for 1973-1974 (3 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Black and white enlargements of the reception for Kirill Khenkin at Congressman Alphonso and Marian Bell's home at which both Councilman Tom Bradley and Zev Yaroslavsky were in attendance.
Box 54, Folder 16

Photographs for 1973-1974 (4 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Photos of a protest on behalf of Soviet Jews as art from the Hermitage was displayed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Box 54, Folder 17

Photographs for 1973-1974 (5 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews participating in a Jewish fair.
Box 54, Folder 18

Photographs for 1973-1974 (6 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Color snapshots of demonstrations at the Shrine Auditorium when Soviet cultural programs were conducted including performances by the Moiseyev Dancers, the Bolshoi Ballet, and Valeri and Galina Panov.
Box 54, Folder 19

Photographs for 1973-1974 (7 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Portraits depicting welcome for Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson who, along with Charles Vanik, had sponsored 1974 legislation denying normal trade relations with the USSR due to the nation's emigration restrictions on Jews.
Box 54, Folder 20

Photographs for 1973-1974 (8 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Black and white snapshots illustrating a protest when the exhibit entitled "Soviet Union: Arts and Crafts in Ancient Times and Today" visited the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery from 10 March to 5 April 1972.
Box 54, Folder 21

Photographs for 1973-1974 (9 of 9) 1973-1974

Scope and Content Note

Black and white portraits recording the performance of Valery Panov and his wife Galina Ragozina at the Shrine Auditorium by Frumkin, who had worked for their right to emigrate.
Box 55, Folder 1

Photographs for 1976-1977 (1 of 7) 1976-1977

Scope and Content Note

Black and white enlargements depicting the protest at the Shrine Auditorium in which Frumkin and Yaroslavsky called for freedom of Jews to emigrate.
Box 55, Folder 2

Photographs for 1976-1977 (2 of 7) 1976-1977

Scope and Content Note

Photos of demonstrations, including against Standard Oil Company in which gasoline credit cards were destroyed.
Box 55, Folder 3

Photographs for 1976-1977 (3 of 7) 1976-1977

Scope and Content Note

Color snapshots depicting police intervention during the protest against Vanessa Redgrave and the PLO with resulting injuries to both demonstrators and police.
Box 55, Folder 4

Photographs for 1976-1977 (4 of 7) 1976-1977

Scope and Content Note

Color snapshots of student hunger strike (5-7 April 1977) on behalf of Anatoly Shcharansky, who was one of the founders of the Moscow Refusenik movement sentenced to 13 years of forced labor in Siberia for allegedly spying on America's behalf.
Box 55, Folder 5

Photographs for 1976-1977 (5 of 7) 1976-1977

Scope and Content Note

Color snapshots of a speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Box 55, Folder 6

Photographs for 1976-1977 (6 of 7) 1976-1977

Scope and Content Note

Black and white photos of an April 1977 protest at the Soviet Consulate General for the freedom of Anatoly Sharansky and Joseph Begun. Photos include Avital Sharansky as part of the "L.A. to San Francisco Freedom Flight for Soviet Jews" and the L.A.'s 35's Womens Campaign for Soviet Jews.
Box 55, Folder 7

Photographs for 1976-1977 (7 of 7) 1976-1977

Scope and Content Note

Black and white snapshots of a demonstration at the 1974 L.A. International Film Expo.
Box 55, Folder 8

Photographs for 1982-1983 (1 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Color snapshots of a demonstration for Anatoly Sharansky at L.A. City Hall in September 1982.
Box 55, Folder 9

Photographs for 1982-1983 (2 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Color photos of the 2 December 1982 "Dance for Freedom."
Box 55, Folder 10

Photographs for 1982-1983 (3 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Color and black and white photos of the December 1982 Candlelight Walk for Soviet Jews.
Box 55, Folder 11

Photographs for 1982-1983 (4 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

One black and white photo of Secretary of the Interior James Watt and his wife during their visit to L.A. in February 1983.
Box 55, Folder 12

Photographs for 1982-1983 (5 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Black and white snapshots depicting the March 1983 demonstration in support of Ariel Sharon in spite of the fact that he allowed Phalangists into the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps on 16-18 September 1982.
Box 55, Folder 13

Photographs for 1982-1983 (6 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Photos of the March 1983 demonstration and burning of a Soviet flag by the Jewish Defense League at Occidental Petroleum's headquarters at the Kirkeby Center. Black and white enlargements of Frumkin being interviewed by the Greater L.A. Press Club for his stance against Occidental, which had operated in Libya from 1965-1986.
Box 55, Folder 14

Photographs for 1982-1983 (7 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Color photographs of Frumkin being interviewed by Ray Brix at radio station KABC.
Box 55, Folder 15

Photographs for 1982-1983 (8 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Color snapshots of the protest on behalf of nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov at the Occidental Petroleum facility in Irvine on 10 April 1983.
Box 55, Folder 16

Photographs for 1982-1983 (9 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Color snapshots of the demonstration during the Occidental Petroleum shareholders meeting on 20 May 1983.
Box 55, Folder 17

Photographs for 1982-1983 (10 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Black and white portraits of Frumkin with Congressman Bob Dornan at the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
Box 55, Folder 18

Photographs for 1982-1983 (11 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Black and white portraits of Frumkin leading the Passover Seder for Soviet immigrants at the Westside Jewish Community Center in 1983.
Box 55, Folder 19

Photographs for 1982-1983 (12 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Two color enlargements of Frumkin with Candidate Bruce Herschensohn and Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson at fundraising banquet in November 1984.
Box 55, Folder 20

Photographs for 1982-1983 (13 of 13) 1982-1984

Scope and Content Note

Color snapshots of the candlelight Walk for Soviet Jews 23 December 1984.
 

Soviet Holocaust Interview Translations 2008-2010

Scope and Content Note

Translations of oral histories of Holocaust survivors.
Box 56, Folder 1

"Victims of the Holocaust Tell Their Stories," paperback book 2004

Scope and Content Note

Russian book, published by Optimum in 2004. (The following 21 files are Frumkin's translation of pages 10-89 of this paperback. However, pages 89-111 and pages 114-206 are not translated in the following manuscripts. They are translated in the 2010 published volume "The Holocaust DID Happen.")
Box 56, Folder 2

Interview: Vilya Ira August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Vilya Ira from Beltzi (Moldavia) recalling her Aunt Zina and her Holocaust experiences in Ribnitzki Ghetto, Romania; Balta; Obodovka.
Box 56, Folder 3

Interview: Ida Anapolskaya August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Ida (nee Guralnik) Anapolskaya recalling her Holocaust experiences in Bratslav Vinnitskoy, Ukraine; Pechor Tulchinsky Concentration Camp; Vishkovtsi; Tiraspol; Odessa; Derebchinka; and Belorussia.
Box 56, Folder 4

Interview: Alexander Anapolski August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Alexander Anapolski recalling his Holocaust experiences in Bratslav Vinnitskoy, Ukraine; Chernashevka, Russia; Pechora; Tulchina, Vishnevski; Vinnitsa; Odessa; Tiraspol; and Arhangelsk.
Box 56, Folder 5

Interview: Klara Barskaya August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Klara Barskaya recalling her Holocaust experiences in Popovtsi near Vinnitskaya; Kiev; Odessa; Bessarabia; and Brichan.
Box 56, Folder 6

Interview: Maria Bezman August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Maria Bezman recalling her Holocaust experiences in Zjmerinka, Vinnitski; Transnistrii Ghetto; Brailov; Moscow; and Kiev.
Box 56, Folder 7

Interview: Michail Bochkis August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Michail Bochkis recalling his Holocaust experiences in Mogilyov-Podolski, Vinnitski; Shargorod, Vinnitski; Dnestr River; Pechor Tulchinsky Concentration Camp; Kazani; Mogilyovski Ghetto, Belorussia; and Kiev.
Box 56, Folder 8

Interview: Anna Markovna August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Anna Markovna (nee Vitigailovskaya) Wagner recalling her Holocaust experiences in Bershad Vinnitski.
Box 56, Folder 9

Interview: Ekaterina Vaisbein August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Ekaterina Vaisbein recalling her Holocaust experiences in Andreevo-Ivanovky; Troitski; Ananyev; Bobrik; Rovno; Dzukov; and Usaev.
Box 56, Folder 10

Interview: Anna Vanshtein August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Anna Vanshtein (nee Birman) recalling her Holocaust experiences in Brichani, Romania/Moldavian USSR; Kasautski Forest; Bershadskoe Ghetto, and Vinnitskaya.
Box 56, Folder 11

Interview: Polina Dolmatskaya August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Polina (nee Davidson) Dolmatskaya recalling her Holocaust experiences in Krivoe Ozero, Nikolaevskaya; Lukanovka; Bradievka; Kumarov; Vradievski; Bogdanovka Death Camp; Marinovka; and Domanyovka.
Box 56, Folder 12

Interview: Leonid Dolmatskiy August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Leonid Dolmatskiy recalling his Holocaust experiences in Krutiye/Kodimskiy, Odessa; Akkerman/Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy, Ukrainia; Ploti Forest; Ribnitsa, Moldav Republic; Ribnitskoe; Balta/Baltski Ghetto; and Varshava in which Rabbi Chaim-Zanvel Abramovich is mentioned.
Box 56, Folder 13

Interview: Vladimir Edidovitch August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Vladimir Edidovitch recalling his Holocaust experiences in which the Kaunas archives in Lithuania are mentioned and the following locations play a role: Palanga; Voenkomat; Daugavpils, Latvia; Rezekna, Latvia; Sventas; Riga Ghetto; Stutthof Concentration Camp; Dachau. In addition, Sophia Ivanovna Adomyanets is acclaimed as a Righteous amongst the Gentiles.
Box 56, Folder 14

Interview: Pyotr Efimov August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Pyotr Efimov recalling his Holocaust experiences in Kodima Ghetto, Ukraine; Kodimskiy Yar; Budei; Gvozdovka; Krivoye Ozero; Chichelnik Ghetto; Balta; and Odessa. In addition, the television documentary about Arkadiy Duvidzon is mentioned.
Box 56, Folder 15

Interview: Raisa Koganova August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Raisa (nee Urman) Koganova recalling her Holocaust experiences in Savranski Ghetto, Odessa; Obodovka, Vinnitsky; and the Bershad Ghetto.
Box 56, Folder 16

Interview: Evginia Konviser August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Evginia Konviser recalling her Holocaust experiences in Artemovskaya, Donetskaya; Enakiev; Kramatorsk; Alsiovka; Ural; Minsk; and Vilnius, Lithuania.
Box 56, Folder 17

Interview: Arkadiy Korabelnik August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Arkadiy Korabelnik recalling his Holocaust experiences in Shundra Grodnenskaya, Belorus; Slonim Ghetto, Grodnenskaya; Moscow; and Dnepropetrovskiy.
Box 56, Folder 18

Interview: Boris Krasner August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Boris Krasner recalling his Holocaust experiences in Kharkov; Luchinets Kopaigorodski, and Vinnitski.
Box 56, Folder 19

Interview: Iosif Marchak August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Iosif Marchak recalling the Holocaust experiences of his father, Eli-Shoyhet, in Bershad; Lodz; Uman; Bessarbiya; and Bokvina.
Box 56, Folder 20

Interview: Alexander Matusov August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Alexander Matusov writing about Ilya Frenkel, a Jewish soldier who saved many other Jews in Kiev; Millerovo, Koshar; Nijne-Chirskaya Stanitsa; Zaporojye; Yuzovka, Mariupole; Zaporozhiye; Savranskiy Forest; and Moscow.
Box 56, Folder 21

Interview: Mihail Murahovski August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Mihail Murahovski recalling his Holocaust experiences in Odessa and the Kremenchug Concentration Camp.
Box 56, Folder 22

Interview: Moisei Podberezin August 2008

Scope and Content Note

Frumkin's translation of Moisei Podberezin recalling his Holocaust experiences in Kalinin/Tver; Vyoski; and the Ilino Concentration Camp. His tour through his childhood village was videotaped by Steven Spielberg and the original is available at the Shoah Foundation at USC.
 

Pocket Calendars 1971, 1972, 1977, 1978, 1988

Scope and Content Note

Calendars, address book and a few other personal mementoes.
Box 56, Folder 23

Calendar 1971

Scope and Content Note

Calendar recording the dates and times of the Candlelight Walk, ORT Meetings, and demonstrations at the Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard.
Box 56, Folder 24

Calendar 1972

Scope and Content Note

Calendar recording a notation about Congressman Bell's participation in the Candlelight Walk, the start date of Hebrew Union College in January, meeting date with George Putnam in January, etc.
Box 56, Folder 25

Calendar 1977

Scope and Content Note

Calendar recording a note regarding a dinner date with Zev Yaroslavsky in January, an event at the Valley Hilton in March, and a meeting with L.A. City Attorney Bert Pines in April.
Box 56, Folder 26

Calendar 1978

Scope and Content Note

Calendar recording a note regarding Shaarei Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem and an appointment with Elie Wiesel and lunch at the Simon Wiesenthal Center during January.
Box 56, Folder 27

Calendar 1988

Scope and Content Note

Calendar recording notations regarding weekly speaking engagements for the Simon Wiesenthal Center during March.
Box 56, Folder 28

"The Book of Si" 2000

Scope and Content Note

A film made for the occasion of Frumkin's 70th birthday in which Zev Yaroslavsky, Alexander Polovets and numerous other friends honor him.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

1 DVD.
Special equipment or further processing may be required for viewing. To access digital materials you must notify the reference desk in advance of your visit.
Box 56, Folder 29

Greeting Cards

Scope and Content Note

Greeting cards along with addresses of Soviet Jews to mail them to.
Box 56, Folder 30

Telephone and Address Book

Scope and Content Note

Telephone numbers and addresses for the Association of Russian Jews in New York, Congressman Howard Berman, newspaper publisher Phil Blazer, the Claims Conference, the British historian Martin Gilbert, and numerous former Soviet Jews who have emigrated to Israel.