Secret Trial of Russian Jews Is Bre

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pointing a special committee to
At least one of the attorneys , Place Russian Jewish emigres in
Kogan, is believed to be Jewish, suitable jobs. Vitaly Svichinsky, a n
as his name is the Russian equiva- architect who arrived in Isra el
lent of Cohen.
from Moscow with his family a
Entry to the trial, which ran week ago, has reportedly bee n
Feb. 10-19 1970, was said to have offered a position with the eng i-
been by invitation only, with rela- neering department of the Kfa r
Onno municipal council.
tives probably not admitted.
Mark Moshevitz, chairman of th e
There were reportedly 20 witness- Manufacturers
sai d
es examined, with the evidence the absorption of Association,
Jews int 0
including Hebrew books and re- the Israeli economy Soviet
would
not
pos
cords and a pamphlet titled serious problem because most e
"dror," a Hebrew word for free- a them
were professionals or highl y
dom. Following the sentencing, the
Jewish defendants were said to skilled workers.
have cried out "Next year in Jeru- Soviet Performers Picketed
salem!"
by Baltimore Students
BALTIMORE (JTA) — Sevent y
1 2arael Prepares. for Emigre
Jewish students from Baltimor
Families; At Least Six Granted
area
universities picketed the per
Exit Visas by Soviet Officials
formance of the Siberian Dancer
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A new or- and Singers of Omsk at the Lyri c
ganization of Russian Jews in Is- Theater here. Under the auspice
rael held its first convention at of the Baltimore Jewish Council
the Mann Auditorium here Sunday they handed members of the audi
night as Israel prepared for the ence entering the theater copies
imminent arrival of at least six of a letter from the Baltimore
Soviet- Jewish families - who unex- Committee for Soviet Jewry to the
pectedly received - exit visa's last manager of the troupe condemning
week after having been denied the alleged mistreatment of Jews
them for months by Soviet antinwi-- in the Soviet Union.

The conference will take place Are published-101We the Soviet
Tuesday through Friday.
Mien only, ratan sod a "round-
But even as the first delegates table discussion" ad' several
prominent) Soviet Jews to support
began
arriving
Wednesday,
the
-
Soviet Union let loose - a propa- the contesdiss that Jews are
ganda blast against the confer - well treated in -.the ' USSR. One __
ence and retaliated by holding up of the participants was Col. GM.
the departure of at least two Jew- David Draguasky, the isighest-: •
ish families who had received exit ranking Jew in the Soviet armed
visas and planned to leave Moscow forces, who said the choke of
Feb. 23 as the opening- date of
for Israel this week.
(Jewish sources identified the the Brussels conference was aa-- ,
families of Mr. and Mrs. Viktor insult to the Soviet Union be- •
Fedoseyev and the family of David cause it ecincided with Russia's
Drabkin, the latter an activist who Armed Forces Day. Dragunsky.-
has been agitating for months for said the Soviet army had "saved
emigration rights. Fedoseyev is not people of . venous- nationalities,
Jewish, but applied to go with his including Jesup -from extermina-.
tion by the, Nadi:"
wife, who is.
Richard Cohen, an official of
The Fedoseyevs reportedly
compiled with an official request the American Jewish Congress in
New
York who is acting as press
to return their exit documents
until next week, but Drabkin officer for the Brussels conference,
LEONID RIGERMAN
was said to insist on holding on said there would be no non-Jewish
to his. Authorities indicated that participants except for Belgian
more in its pressure campaign to he could keep his papers as long Premier Gaiton'Eyslien.s, who will
help Jews leave Russia.
as he didn't try to leave the extend official • greetings to the
Kahane charged that the United country before the conference gathering. .
Cohen said the agenda called for
States "capitulated to Soviet pres- in Brussels ends, Jewish sources
a series of eye-witness reports on
sure" by calling for an end to said.)
the
opening day from Jewi who
the demonstrations-
The Soviet blast at the Brussels
Eighty-five Soviet Jews, newly confererice was attributed to Mos- have left the Soviet Union recently.
arrived in Israel, made a plea to cow's concern that it would mobi- The session -will be presided over
American Jews—"Don't give us lize anti-Soviet opinion in Western by Rabbi Herschel Schachter of
Yiddish newspapers, or books, Europe over the issue of the treat- New York, chairman of the Amen-
can Jewish' Conference- on Soviet
plays, or even more synagogues, ment of Jews.
Jewry. The ,official opening of the .
just get us our freedom"—as they
The Kremlin was reportedly an- conference Tuesday evening will
conferred with Harold B. Light, xious
to
keep
Russian-Jewish
acti-
be
nresided over by Prof. Albert
chairman of Bay Area Council on vists away from the conference,
Sabin, president of the Weizmann
Soviet Jewry, recently in Jerusa-
which
was
said
to
account
for
the
Institute of Science at Rehovot.
lem.
delay of the departures of the The keynote addresses will be de-
Dr. Mendl Gordin, a Jew from Drabkins and Fedoseyevs.
livered by former United States
Riga, told Light that when Ameri-
The delay was also seen as
can Jewish leaders ask for more a warning that anti-Soviet activi- Supreme Court Justice and United
Yiddish culture and less anti- ties by Jewish groups abroad could Nations Ambassador Arthur J. '
Semitism, they mean well, but rebound against Jews seeking to J. Goldberg and by the French
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Rene Cassin. .
they are hurting the cause. "If the leave Russia.
The closing session will be _addres-
Russians print a new Yiddish news-
The
Soviet
press
carried
no
news
paper, the Jews won't read it, be- of the forthcoining Brussels con- sed by Den-Gurion and by Dr.
Joachim Prinz of Newark.
cause it's just Pravda in Yiddish
But the two Soviet news
type, but the whole world would ference,
agencies, Tass and Novosti, de- Pell Urges UN to Consider
relax, thinking that things are im7 nounced
Treatment of Soviet Jews;
it Tuesday.
proving. Nothing will help the
Tass commentator Yuri Kornilov Condemns Soviet Anti-Semitism
Soviet Jews except the right to
said
it
could
"only
be
regarded
as
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Sen. Clai-
emigrate, and that's the only de-
another anti-Soviet provocation." borne Pell, Democrat of Rhode
mand to make."
He said the recent anti-Soviet inci: Island, urged that the United Na-
Brussels Conference Draws
dents in the United States by the tions consider the question of the
Retaliation From Moscow
militant Jewish Defense League treatment of Jews in the Soviet
BRUSSELS (JTA) — Prepara- were "part of the program of Union. "Our common conscience
trims are almost complete here for preparations for the Brussels gath- still bears the scars of our silence
the World Conference on Soviet ering worked out by Tel Aviv." hr the 1930s," declared Pell, a
Jewry, which is expected to be Most of the American Jewish or- a member of the Senate Foreign
attended by 500 delegates from ganizations participating in the Relations Committee. "History
50 countries, among them former Brussels conference have strongly ' must not record that in the 1970s
Prime Minister David Ben Gurion condemned the tactics of the JDL. we again closed. our eyes and our
of Israel.
, elneisnention
rtA..16
the
Novosti, whose news dispatches bea

In Philadelphia, Yuri Yurofsky,
The newcomers will include hattif director of the Omsk dance com-
Kazakov, " his Wife and two - daugh- pany, agreed to carry home a re-
ters: They aril/Ie./amity of Yashi quest that Soviet Jews be allowed
Kazakov, a- young Jewish " activist to emigrate or to retain their cul-
L ho - waa.spertnitted to, emigrate to ture and religion in the USSR.
Israel in 1909 and has been agitat- Yurovsky, a Jew, met with repre-
ating ever since for the release of sentatives of the Philadelphia Jew-
his parents. The Kazakovs were ex- ish Community Council, who made
pected to go to Vienna this week the request.
en route to Israel.
The Soviet government has can-
Meanwhile, a report from Mos- celed a U.S. tour by Jewish cellist
cow said that Alexander Kazakov, Mstislay. Rostropovich, who was
brother of Yasha, was beaten by scheduled to perform with the De-
hooligans in a Moscow street last troit Symphony Orchestra April 15
week.
and 17. Impresario Sol Hurok in-
Reports from Moscow over the formed the Detroit Symphony that
weekend also confirmed an. the/qv- would take place later this
earlier report of the impending year.
Although the Soviet government
departure for Israel of Mr. and
Mrs. - Dayid Drabkin and their gave no reason for the cancelation,
it
is known that Rostropovich has
daughter, Moscow Jews who
have long been deinanding the - been outspoken in championing
banned
novelist Alexander Solzhe-
right to emigrate..
1970 Nobel Prize winnar in
Others said to have received per- nitsyn,
literattire.
mission to leave were Mr. and Mrs.
Rostropovich wrote . an open
Viktor Fedosevev; Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Gurevich; Mr. and Mrs. letter to Pravda defending Solzhe-
Vadim Barshevsky and their child; nitsyn, decrying Soviet censor-
and Krayna Shur, the sister of ship. Following the appearance
Gilel Shur, who was arrested in of that letter in the West. the
Leningrad last spring and is re- cellist's appearances in Finland
and Paris were canceled by his
portedly awaiting trial.
Jewish sources reportedly know government.
Also, his star pupil, cellist Na-
of many more Jews seeking exit
•
•
•
JevrisrlitiiiiIV:771-Zsip;:naffia.-
permits who have been denied talya Gutman, a Jewess, has had
her
scheduled concert tour of the U. of M. `Day of Witness' Conveys
PresIdent rrlxoo to *drunk
them. These sources refuse to re-
U. S. - reorineita Wei "To'‘-the TIN
gard the recent granting of visas a- U.S. canceled. A letter of protest
Commindon-ion.11UntaitHights, Mrs. ' .
new trend but claim that Soviet has been sent to Soviet Ambassa- Tragic Situation of Soviet Jewry
-
Rita K. Hauler,-to bring 'the 'mat-
authorities simply want to "get dor Anatoly .Dobrynin by the St.
rid" of Jewish activists who sign Louis SYMPli 0/1Y.
by HANNAH MORRISON
purpose of our being here," he ter up at the commission's' next
meeting..
-
In
New
York
last
week,
the
petitions and try to enlist world
Last Tuesday was dedicated by said, "is to remind the young
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Mena- the Jewish Community Council of young people in particular of the Soviet Union May Proclaim
{pion in their cause.
chem
M.
Schneerson,
claimed that Washtenaw County as "Day of tragedy of the Eastern European Birobidjan a 'Jewish Republic)
e Tel Aviv convention was an
emotional occasion, bringing to- anti-Soviet demonstrations by Jews Witness" to Soviet oppression of Jews, cultural and religious geno-
NEW YORK (ZINS—The ASR
gether recent emigres from Russia in the U.S. and elsewhere were Jews.
cide. We must be witness to is believed to be about to refurbish
and Israelis who came during the counter-productive and in fact
The event was climaxed that their sorrow and hope for new the
image of its Siberhin-"Auten- -
jeopardized the departure of 100 evening by a creative service held freedom."
Czarist era.
°mous . Jewish -Republic!' - at Biro-
Among the latter were former Russian-Jewish families who had at the Bnai Brith Hillel building
"Our job," he continued, "is to bidjan, publicizing that there is an .
and was .attended by more than let the Soviet government know
Premier David Ben-Gurion and already been promised visas.
area within the Soviet Union where
Addressing 3,000 of his followers 100 participants.
Itzhak Tabenkin, of the Second
that the world is aware of what Jews who insist_ on preservation
Aliya. Among the newcomers were in Yiddish, Rabbi Schneerson said
Throughout the day, leaflets is taking place. We must continue of
their ethnic identity may live.
Maj. Grischa Feigin, a former offi- he had privately warned the or- were distributed on the Univer- to hope that the Russians will re-
The move ia.seen as a counter to
cer in the Soviet army, who as+ ganizers of anti-Soviet demonstra- sity of Michigan campus,. in the spond. They cannot push this issue
the
growing.critietam .of the USSR
tions "against acts which do more totro of Ann Arbor and at three under the carpet forever. That
rived in Israel last week.
grounds tlb - itAiscriminates
Premier Golda Meir declared, harm than good."
local shopping centers. The ma- the Jews want to leave hurts Rus- on
against
Jews.' g them of
He said the organizers "knew terial' included an announcement sian pride, because it shows that
"There is no force in the world,
rights which -are:enjoyed by other -
no government however cruel, that that 100 families had been about to of the creative service and a form everything isn't so good." -
ethnic minoritielc.",::
can deter Jews from coming to leave the Soviet Union. In fact that could be sent to the Russian
Dean Haber recounted his 1968
Several months- 14 the Kremlin
Israel if they wish to."
all arrangements had been made Embassy.
visit to the Soviet Union, at which selected a Je*, *-Luo 'Shapiro, as
Drabkin, 43, an electronics ex- for their visas and departures. I
One student who distributed the time there was only one synagogue first secretary of-
the Communist
Qaert, has reportedly been the victim begged . . . (them) not to do any- papers said, "Though most people for the 250,000 Jews in the city of
Party in Birobidjan. This is the
of Soviet Jewish agitation for emi- thing : . I sometimes think that seemed to at least glance at it, I Kiev. He also mentioned the anti- first
time in 30 years (since the
gration rights.
they would be prepared to sacri- don't think it got 'to them." She Zionist press campaign and the
Another Soviet Jew who has re- fice 3,000,000 'Jews in order to voiced' disappointment that more elimination of Jews from the pro- bloody purges of 1937) that a Jew
was named to this position.
ceived an exit permit is Leonid make their point over here. Now students, did not attend the pro- fessions,
universities and public
Observers note that on Oct. -1, a
Rigerman, son of American citi- these families are being harassed gram.
life.
newspaper "The Birobidjan Star,"
zens, who has waged a nonstop in the Soviet Union because they,
Another 'said, "The problem
"However, the Jews are no was enlarged to four pages and
battle for emigration to the United or some of them. are suspected is that the people who are here
longer silent. Since 1963, close
now appears five times a week, _
States. He and his mother will of collusion with those 'who organ- at Hine are those who are al-
to 300 petitions have been smug-
while in the past it was published
leave together.
ize demonstrations in the West," ready aware of the situation of
gled to the United Nations and only three times weekly.
Still another Soviet-Jewish activ- Rabbi Scheerson said.
Soviet Jests. The rest are the
many foreign embassies asking
It is not unreasonable to sup-
ist, Boris Tsukerman, arrived in
In New York,- the militant Jew- ones we need to reach."
for help. The spark of Judaism pose, say the Kremlinologists, that
Israel with his wife and two chil- ish Defense League (JDL) re-
At the program, a play written still survives," he said.
to counteract the attraction of the
dren on Jan. 25. Tsukerman is a sumed picketing of the Soviet Mis- by Rabbi Joel Poupko was pre-
A petition in the Michigan Daily,
scientist. It is not, known whether sion to the United Nations after sented, in which God was symboli- the student newspaper, publicized state of- Israel, the Soviets might
Aye has obtained work in Israel.
a moratorium of nearly a month. cally tried for his "neglect" of the the "Day of Witness." Signed by even proclaim an 'autonomous'
Jewish Republic in Birobidjan and
The Israel Manufacturers Asso- It also threatened to start haras- Russian Jews. -
43 students, it protested the treat- insist that all Soviet Jews who
ciation announced that it was ap- sing Soviet citizens there once
Dean William Haber of the Uni- ment of Soviet Jews and
want to have an authentic "Jewish
versity
of
Michigan
spoke
pre-
removal of restrictions, - es- atmosphere_ transfer . their-liaittes
34—Friday, Fsbroary 19, 1971
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ceding this creative service. "The pecially on emigration.
there.

