Goobi - e353d - 2020-08-02 20:03:17+0000
Goobi
1953/2014
Broadcast Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
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HU OSA 297
Archival reference number
A Szabad Európa Rádió és Szabadság Rádió adásfelvételei
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Research Institute
1953
2014
3.1 TB compressed .WAV and XML files (26147 audio files)
The fond contains 528 audio files related to Jewish history and culture that are to be found in the archival series HU OSA 297-0-1 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian Broadcast, 1953-1995. These audio files are examples of various radio shows produced and broadcast by the RL Russian Service in these years.
• 397 audio files are releases of a special radio show “Shalom” (the show was renamed “Jewish Cultural and Social Life” in the 1990s). The show was on air in between 1970 and 1995. It informed its audiences about multiple aspects of Jewish life in the Soviet Union and abroad (Including Israel, the U.S.A. and European countries). After 1991, the show tracked renaissance of Jewish life in post-Soviet Russia. The show’s creators were gathering original information about social, community, political, and diplomatic aspects of Jewish life in the region and emigration from it. Almost every release of the show contains a thematic selection of news and interviews with various political, social, and cultural actors of Jewish origin who either resided in the West or recently emigrated from the USSR. On several occasions, poems, novels, memoirs, and other texts in Yiddish were read out.
In the 1970s, this radio show informed its international (mainly Russian and Yiddish-speaking) audience about various aspects of Jewish life in the Soviet Union and abroad. Such were Jewish community life across the world (Jewish community in Vilnius, Jews in GDR, Jewish life in Iran, etymology of names and surnames of German Jews, Jews in Syria, Jews in Ethiopia, Jews in Spain, Jews in Egypt, Jews in Cuba, Jewish cultural heritage in Spain, Jewish theater in the United States, Jewish students in the United States, Jewish youth organizations in the United States, demographic composition of Jewish communities in England, month of Jewish music in London, Jewish writers and Jewish literature from France, relations between Christian Orthodox and Jews, suburban synagogues of the USA, teaching Jewish languages and literature in the USA, exhibition of works by young Leningrad artists in New York); “Jewish question” in the USSR (Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, rallies abroad in defense of the Jews of the USSR, festivals of solidarity with Soviet Jews in the United States, Russian poets about Jews, a group of nine “refusenik” Jews unsuccessfully trying to escape from Soviet Russia by hijacking an airplane in 1970, rules for issuing entry visas to the USSR, rally in Manhattan dedicated to the Day of Solidarity with Jews in the USSR, samizdat journal “Jews in the USSR”, persecution of Jews in the USSR, Jewish Samizdat, Jewish activists and dissidents in the Soviet Union, a letter from a group of Soviet Jews to Leonid Brezhnev, history of suppression and liquidation of Jewish culture in Yiddish in the USSR after WWII, human rights in the Soviet Union and abroad, antisemitism of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, separated families, journal “Zion”); global Jewish diaspora (global Jewish press, methods of combating anti-Semitism and racism globally); anniversary dates and commemoration (anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust in Paris, requiem for Jewish poets, writers and public figures executed on August 12, 1952, history of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, World Jewish Congress demanding from the GDR to compensate damage inflicted on Jews during WWII, rally in memory of the victims and prisoners of the Auschwitz camp in West Berlin in 1975); life in Israel (Youth Aliyah, theater in Israel, Yom Ha'atzmaut [Israel Independence Day], Russian-language periodicals in Israel, impressions of recent emigrants from life in Israel, the Six-Day War, financial assistance to new immigrants in Israel, museums in Israel); and Jewish tradition (concept of Tzedakah [charity] in Jewish culture, Jewish religious holidays).
In the 1980s, the RL radio show “Shalom” (in the online catalog titled “Jewish Cultural and Social Life”) informed about the political implication of non-teaching Hebrew in the Soviet Union, Jewish religious holidays, samizdat journal “Jews in the USSR”, refuseniks, attempts of Jews to emigrate from the Soviet Union, Jewish immigrant writers in Israel and the USA, demonstrations in various countries in support of Soviet Jews and their efforts to emigrate, violation of rights of Jews to freedom of religion in Moscow, and Golda Meir's book of memories.
In the 1990s, this RL radio show was renamed into “Jewish Cultural and Social Life” and hosted the thousandth anniversary issue (on February 2, 1995). Throughout this decade, the show informed its audience about revival of Jewish community life in the former Soviet Union.
• 38 audio files are releases of a radio show “Letters and Documents” – a weekly show in which previously classified documents from Russian archives are read: complaints and letters from ordinary people to the leaders of the USSR, summaries of political sentiments among the people, various kinds of certificates, memos, reports on the situation in the country, on the course of major political campaigns, on the activities of law enforcement agencies.
• 12 audio files are releases of a radio show “Documents and People”
• 7 audio files are releases of a radio show “Human Rights”
• 7 audio files are releases of a radio show “Not by Bread Alone”, a radio show on Christian Orthodoxy.
• 6 audio files are releases of a radio show “Radio Liberty's News Programme”
• 6 audio files are releases of a radio show “Human Rights”
• 5 audio files are releases of a radio show “Unpublished Works of Soviet Authors”
• 5 audio files are releases of a radio show “Religion in the Modern World”
• 5 audio files are releases of a radio show “Special Programme”
• 4 audio files are releases of a radio show “From Cheka to KGB: History of the State Security Authorities” [1968-1971]
• 4 audio files are releases of a radio show “Samizdat Review”
• 4 audio files are releases of a radio show “On the Events of the Day”
• 4 audio files are releases of various radio shows that are registered in this archival series under the titles of singular releases, not under the titles of the shows (for instance, “On Jews in the Soviet Union”). These releases inform about quotas for Jewish students in institutes, about the attitude in the Soviet Union to Jews, about actions in support of Jews (release on 5 April 1971). A release “On Arrests and Trials of Human Rights Activists” informs about the help and solidarity of American Jewish organizations to the Jews of the USSR (released on 1 June 1978). Other releases in this category are “Conversation with rev. Nikolai Artjomov” and “Conference with the Singer Mikhail”.
• 3 audio files are releases of a radio show “Judaism. Religion, Ethics, History, Philosophy, Literature”, a weekly show. Release on 05 December 1985 informed about Judaism and paganism, the uprising of the Jews under the leadership of the Maccabees, Hanukkah songs and Hanukkah candles; release on 27 March 1986 is about family in the tradition of Judaism and Purim holiday in Moscow; release on the forefather Jacob, his life and deeds, on religious examination of 1913 and on passage of the Jews across the Red Sea.
• 3 audio files are releases of a radio show “In Medias Res”
• 3 audio files are releases of a radio show “From the Other Shore” [1969-1971]
• 3 audio files are releases of a radio show “Soviet Union: Events, Problems, Thoughts”
• 2 audio files are releases of a radio show “Fates of Siberia”
• 2 audio files are releases of a radio show “After the Empire,” informational and analytical radio magazine. Release on 11 November 1994 sheds light on immigration of Jews from Uzbekistan; release on 23 January 1995 informs about the book "Fire for the Jews!" authored by Mikhail Bombin.
• 2 audio files are releases of a radio show “Culture, Events, People”
• 2 audio files are releases of a radio show “Culture Magazine of Radio Liberty”
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “American Scientist on USSR”, release on 21 July 1983, about Jewish emigration from the USSR.
• 1 audio files are releases of a radio show “Documents of Our Time”
• 1 audio files are releases of a radio show “Over the Barriers” – questions of the Russian cultural process: are the established stereotypes correct, are certain cultural figures deservedly exalted and rightly forgotten?
• 1 audio file is releases of a radio show “On the Brink of Life”
• 1 audio file is releases of a radio show “Writers at the Microphone,” informs about dilemmas of coexistence between Arabs and Jews, on their shared difficult past, and on mentality of Israelis (released on 9 July 1994).
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “Show of Valery Chalidze”
• 1 audio files are releases of a radio show “Counterpoint”
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “What Do They Argue About, What Do They Discuss”
• 1 audio files are releases of a radio show “Events and People”
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “Window out of Europe,” informs about Jewish theater in Warsaw and its shows (released on 29 October 1993)
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “Science and Technology of Our Days”
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “Russian Idea”
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “Press Club”
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “Panorama of the Week”
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “Our History”
• 1 audio file is a release of a radio show “Facts and Opinions”
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The sub-fond was transferred to the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives in May 1995 under the initial mandate to preserve over 2.5 linear kilometers of documents accumulated in the archives of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute.
The Broadcast Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was established as part of the RFE/RL Research Unit to collect and prepare for publication information and analytics about ongoing affairs and developments in socialist Bulgaria. Establishment of the RFE/RL was related to informational confrontation in the Cold War. The material was processed and revised at the Blinken OSA in 2000.
Cuba
Egypt
Ethiopia
France
Germany
Hungary
Iran
Israel
London
Poland
Syria
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan
Vilnius
Mikhail Agursky
Mark Azbel
David Ben-Gurion
Mikhail Bombin
Leonid Brezhnev
James L. Buckley
Elias Canetti
Shlomo Carlebach
David Frankfurter
Maurice Friedberg
Heinz Galinski
Shimon Grilius
Tengiz Gudava
Binem Heller
Eugène Ionesco
Aleksander Isbakh
Nahum Korzhavin
Dovid Knout
Anatolii Krasnov-Levitin
Arkady Lvov
Peretz Markish
Golda Meir
Aharon Meskin
Solomon Mikhoels
Ida Nudel
Jacob Roei
Valery Panov
Mark Perakh
Andrei Sakharov
Martha Schlamme
Efraim Sevela
Natan Sharansky
Alphons Silbermann
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vladimir Slepak
Mikhail Stern
Percy Sutton
Grigory Svirsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Chaim Weizmann
Simon Wiesenthal
Alexander Woronel
Sylva Zalmanson
Antisemitism
Jewish community
Jewish daily life and religious practices
Jewish holidays
Jewish languages
Jewish languages--Yiddish
Jewish political activity
Jewish Question
Jewish quota
Jewish-Christian relations
Literature
Memoirs
Migration
Migration--Emigration
Monuments and memorials
Museums
Music
Radio and television
Aliyah
Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
Restitution and compensation
Theatre
The sub-fond contains audio files systematized according to legacy structure of the sub-fond.
Reproduction is allowed for non-commercial purposes, audio files are available online for research purposes.
The over 26 thousand audio files are published along with their related descriptions via the ‘Digital Repository’ at OSA.
https://catalog.osaarchivum.org/catalog/jDedZVWL
Originals are located at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University in California, copies are located at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Blinken OSA) in Budapest.
Anastasia Felcher; Blinken OSA; 2022 based on Alexey Zelensky; Blinken OSA, 2015-2016; Zsuzsanna Zádori; Blinken OSA, 2016.
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives