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Regina Waldman papers and photographs, 1970-2005.
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Regina Waldman papers and photographs, 1970-2005Creator/Contributor:
Waldman, Regina., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 2006.014.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.Abstract:
The collection consists of a small amount of biographical material, correspondence, newspaper clippings, assorted pamphlets
and exhibition catalogs, and photographs that document the activities Waldman undertook as director of the Bay Area Council
for Soviet Jews. The oversize item is an illustrated letter that Waldman smuggled out of the Soviet Union from a Jewish dissident
artist.
Date:
1970 (issued)Subject:
e-ur--- -- n-us-caDissenters, Artistic -- Soviet Union
Jews, Soviet -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Jewish artists -- Soviet Union
Artistes dissidents -- URSS
Juifs soviétiques -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Artistes juifs -- URSS
Dissenters, Artistic
Jewish artists
Jews, Soviet
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Soviet Union
Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews.
Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews
Waldman, Regina -- Archives
Note:
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 2006.014.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
Regina Waldman was Executive Director of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews (BACSJ) from 1970 to 1981. Born in Libya, Waldman
was forced to flee to Italy with her family in the wake of anti-Jewish rioting that followed the outbreak of the Six Day War
in 1967. She immigrated to the United States in 1969 and began volunteering with the BACSJ. She became Executive Director
a year later. Waldman was particularly adept at using actions, such as chaining herself to the gates of the Soviet Consulate
in San Francisco, to attract media attention to the plight of Soviet Jews. In 1975, Waldman visited the Soviet Union, where
she met with refuseniks and dissidents such as Anatoly Scharansky and Andrei Sakharov. Waldman would later go on to host Sakharov's
wife, Yelena Bonner, during an 1986 visit to the San Francisco Bay Area (and both Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner during
a subsequent visit in 1989). Waldman worked on two exhibitions of underground Soviet Art in the Bay Area, the first, entitled
"12 From The Soviet Underground," opened at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in 1976 and the second, entitled "From Gulag to Glasnost,"
toured the United States in 1989. Waldman later founded an organization called JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East
and North Africa) to raise awareness about Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa.
Preferred citation: Regina Waldman papers and photographs, BANC MSS 2010/727, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials in English.
Type:
photographs.Photographs
Archives
Photographs.
Photographies.
Physical Description:
print
1 box and 1 oversize folder (.2 linear feet)
Language:
English
Identifier:
2008574829
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.