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Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry

The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, also known by its acronym SSSJ, was founded in 1964 by Jacob Birnbaum to be a spearhead of the U.S. movement for rights of the Jews in the Soviet Union.[1] Small,[2] medium,[3] and 6-digit-size demonstrations, at important locations, spread the message: Let my people go.

Jacob Birnbaum's Chronicles of a Redemption

Yossi Klein Halevi, The Man who Saved Soviet Jewry, Azure #17, Spring 2004.

Gal Beckerman, When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Avi Weiss, Open Up The Iron Door, Toby Press, 2015.

Philip Spiegel, Triumph Over Tyranny, Devora Publishing, 2008.

William Orbach, The American Movement to Aid Soviet Jews, U. of Mass. Press, 1979

Paul Appelbaum, The Soviet Jewry Movement in the United States, in Michael Dobrowski's American Voluntary Organizations, Greenwood Press, 1986

Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, Nine Questions People Ask about Judaism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981 and subsequent re-issues

Ronald I. Rubin, The Unredeemed: Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, Quadrangle, 1968.

Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy. New York: William Morrow, 1991

Jonathan Mark, "Yaakov Birnbaum's Freedom Ride," New York Jewish Week, April 30, 2004: front-page article and lead editorial, on 40th anniversary of SSSJ.

Critical reviews by Jacob Birnbaum of Al Chernin's lead chapter in A Second Exodus, of Gal Beckerman's When they Come for Us, We’ll be Gone.

Archives of Center for Russian Jewry with Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry transferred by Jacob Birnbaum to Yeshiva University in 1993, including letter from Martin Gilbert to Jacob Birnbaum dated November 10, 1986. A guide to these archives may be accessed through the Library's website.

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Union of Councils for Soviet Jews

"Birnbaum and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry," Yossi Klein Halevi

"Lessons of Struggle for Soviet Jewry Remain Relevant," Yossi Klein Halevi

Encyclopaedia Judaica, "Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry." 2008

"Columbia's Forgotten Human Rights Beacon", The Current, Winter 2007 (Columbia University)