Free Soviet Jews!
Artist
Julia Noonan
Date1983
Dimensions45 x 29 1/2 in. (114.3 x 74.9 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Chisholm Larsson Gallery, New York
Object numberPH.9463
DescriptionThis poster was issued by The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry to advertise one of the Solidarity Sundays it had been involved in since its founding in 1972. Here, illustrator Julia Noonan shows a Jewish man in the Soviet Union among a huge crowd of others, physically confronting Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Freedom is symbolized by the Statue of Liberty seen across the water in the background. The 1983 march promoted here preceded the critical Freedom Sunday on December 6, 1987, when 250 thousand people marched in Washington D.C. on the eve of the first summit in the United States between President Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev. It signaled the beginning of the end of restrictions on the Right to Leave for Soviet Jews. On View
Not on view
Semen Borisovich Raev
1984
