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Title:
New Jewish Agenda, Los Angeles Chapter Records, 1979-1991

Collection number:
MSS 033

Creator:
New Jewish Agenda, Los Angeles Chapter

Extent:
5 letter size boxes

3 2/3 linear feet

Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Los Angeles, CA 90044

Abstract:
The New Jewish Agenda (NJA), an activist national Jewish community organization, set out to be a progressive voice within the Jewish community and a Jewish voice within the progressive community. Most active in the decade of the 1980's, the NJA was committed to working at the grassroots level on programs for the Jewish people in the United States, Israel, and other Jewish communities that differed from the dominant policies of the Israeli government and the United States national Jewish establishment. This collection is comprised of the working papers of the Los Angeles chapter and Western Regional office of the NJA, organized in 1979 and lasting through the early years of the 1990's.

Language:
English.

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