Anyone interested may access the catalog at no charge.

Below you will find a wide range of "Collection" folders. Here are tips on how to search for specific items.

Search ACROSS the Collection folders

• Enter your search request in the search box located below. The results will return items that exist in ANY of the collection folders. 
• Click on individual items to find more information about each item, where it is held, and a link to the site where they reside and are preserved.

Search WITHIN a Collection

• For example, you want to search in the Boston Action for Soviet Jewry Collection, click on the individual folder you would like.
• You will find a search button at the top of each page within the collection.

Sample Searches

• Some examples of searches are: names, genre or specific items of interest. You might search for: Union of Councils, audio, Sharansky, Cleveland, interfaith.
• For specific searches please enclose your search in quotations such as "Union of Councils". By doing this you will eliminate all instances of just "union" and just "council."

At this time, only a portion of the collections of the Grassroots Soviet Jewry Movement are available online through the SJMAP catalog (BETA VERSION). In order to add additional collections, we need your help. Ways you can assist:

• Know of any collections in someone's attic or basement? SJMAP is happy to help find an archive for these materials to be preserved. Please click on the "Material Donations" button above.
• Funds are needed in order for SJMAP to link to materials from other archives and include them on the SJMAP Catalog. Help support this work. Click on the "Financial Donations" button above.
• Let us know of any foundations, organizations, and individuals who can provide funding for SJMAP's work to share the history and impact of the grassroots Soviet Jewry movement.

If you want to use any materials found in the SJMAP Catalog for publication, you will need to get permission from the individual organization that holds the documents.

SJMAP provides basic information/meta data about each collection or item.  Much of the material is located at organizations such as the American Jewish Archives, the Western Reserve Historical Society, and many others.

The SJMAP catalog links to these outside organizations, so that any use of the materials has to be addressed with the organization/institution that preserves the materials in their individual collections and may have copyright and publication policies unique to their institution.  Please check with the organization where the materials are housed to access their policies.