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Micah Naftalin

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Micah H. Naftalin (1933 - December 23, 2009) was an American advocate for the rights of Soviet Jews. He was national director of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews from February 1987 until his death.^[1]

Naftalin held a BA from Brandeis University (1955) and a JD from The George Washington University School of Law (1960).^[1] He served in Korea as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1957.^[1]

Before joining UCSJ, he served as an aide to U.S. Congressman Carl Elliott, as chief counsel and deputy director of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Government Research and as a senior policy analyst with the National Academy of Sciences.^[2] In 1982, he joined chairman Elie Wiesel on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, which led the efforts to establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Naftalin was appointed deputy director and, later, acting director.^[2]

Naftalin died in Washington, DC.^[3]

References

1. ^Altshuler, Stuart (2005). From Exodus to Freedom: A History of the Soviet Jewry Movement. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 50.
2. ^¹²³"Micah Naftalin, Advocate for Soviet Jewry, 76" [obituary] (December 31, 2009). Washington Jewish Week.
3. ^Oster, Marcy (December 25, 2009). "Human rights activist for Soviet Jews dies." Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2015-10-19.

External links

"UCSJ mourns the death of its national director" [press release] (December 23, 2009). UCSJ. Archive of the Jewish Aliya Movement in the USSR
Records of Union of Councils for Soviet Jews at the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History.

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