Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Independent Collections

These collections were produced by independent journalists. Many of these recordings make up the bulk of the original collection of the Freedom Archives.

Subcollections

Documents

Jews in the Soviet Union: Menuhin Jews in the Soviet Union: Menuhin
Date: 1/1/1970Call Number: CE 016Format: CassetteProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: Jews in the Soviet Union: MenuhinCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Moshe Menuhin discusses anti-Semitism in the USSR, Stalin's role, treatment of Jews in USSR since then, Zionist efforts to promote emigration to Israel, and US-USSR relations.
An Egyptian Jew Answers Michel Agopian and Colin Edwards An Egyptian Jew Answers Michel Agopian and Colin Edwards
Date: 1/1/1970Call Number: CE 376Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion of Middle East situation, particularly regarding Egypt, from point of view of Joseph Wahed, who grew up in a Jewish community in Egypt. Wahed is responding to and strongly disagreeing with an earlier program of Colin Edwards in which he interviewed Michel Agopian, Agence France Presse correspondent in Cairo (CE 286).
UN Security Council Debate UN Security Council Debate
Call Number: CE 624Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Following Jordan, the delegate from Saudi Arabia addresses the Security Council equating the establishment of Israel to a new Crusade, the humanity of Arabs, refuting claims of anti-Semitism , links the situation of the Palestinians to the Native Americans, US imperialism, and speaks about the hypocrisy and criminality of major US political figures. Indian delegate calls for the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from Syria, US Ambassador Goldberg says countries cannot intervene in domestic affairs of other countries. Takes offense to Saudi Arabia’s comments. The delegate from Nigeria speaks, then back to the delegate from Saudi Arabia.