Large Photograph Collection - "Let My People Go" Organization for Soviet Jews, 1970s

Large Photograph Collection - "Let My People Go" Organization for Soviet Jews, 1970s
140 photographs documenting the activity of the "Let My People Go" Organization for Soviet Jews. Israel, 1970s.
Collection of press photographs documenting the activities of the "Let My People Go" Organization, founded following the national revival of Soviet Jews after the Six-Day War. The organization was active throughout the 1970s for the release and repatriation to Israel of Soviet Jews.
Photographs include: Russian immigrants on hunger strike near the Western Wall; protest demonstration at the Western Wall plaza; demonstrations for the "Leningrad Defendants" (refuseniks and human rights' activists in the Soviet Union who attempted to hijack an empty passenger plane in order to draw international attention to the distress of Soviet Jewry); Seder night for Prisoners of Zion in the Soviet Union, held under the open sky at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv; demonstrations of the Gahal students' club; demonstration of scientists from the Weizmann Institute and Tel Aviv University; a number of photographs documenting demonstrations held in England and France, and more.
Enclosed: a pseudo-"passport" made in protest, trilingual (English-Hebrew-Russian), detailing the prohibitions imposed on Jewish scientists living in the Soviet Union and the dangers they face if they do not immigrate to Israel; and three additional paper items.
Many of the photographs are captioned and dated on the reverse or on the front.
Size varies, 12X9 cm to 24X16 cm. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Ma'ariv newspaper archive.