Detroiter's Soviet Host Reaches Israel
Georgian Jew Sees His Dream Come True
"Let the Soviet government
use any of its usual methods, in-
cluding hanging, they will not
dissuade me, and I will always
ask to leave this country and
settle forever in Israel. This right
is given to me by the Constitu-
tion of the Soviet Union and by
the Universal Declaration of Hu-
man Rights."—Abram Bazukash-
vili, in a letter to the United Na-
tions General Assembly, Oct. 4,
1970.
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Abram Bazukhashvili of Tbilisi (second from right) and his
family finally have achieved their dream: to reach Israel. The photo
was taken by Detroiter Daniel Berk, on a visit to the Soviet Union
last year, and includes (from left) Eliyahu, 7; Esther, Abram's wife;
Hanna, 9; Abram; and Mikhail, 11. The family befriended Berk
while he was on a visit in Tbilisi, the Georgian Republic.
his family have reached Israel.
Daniel Berk, a Detroit attorney
who •had befriended the Bazuk-
hashvilis while on a trip to the
Soviet Union last year, was in-
formed through channels that the
Soviet Georgian family—consisting
of five persons—
had achieved the
impossible.
Berk recalls
his visit with
them as the high-
light of his trip
and often has
mentioned the
B azukh a s hvilis in
his innumerable
talks on Soviet
Jewry to local
organizations.
Berk
Abram Bazukhashvili had en-
countered Berk and his two
traveling companions when they
stopped at the synagogue in
Tbilisi. They learned that Bazuk-
hashvili would go out of his way
to meet visitors from the West,
for they represented his link
with the outside world and his
hope for emigration.
At the Bazukhashvili home, Berk
met Abram's wife Esther, their
three children: Eliyahu, 7; Hanna,
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of relatives.
Bazukhashvili, a construction
worker and sometime cantor, had
been out of a job since filing for
a permit to leave for Israel. Yet
their hospitality was warm on
both evenings that. Berk and his
friends came for dinner.
Outspoken in his desire to make
aliya, Bazukhashvili felt no hesita-
tion in writing of his hopes to the
United Nations General Assembly.
Nor did he cease in his requests
to officials in the Kremlin.
In his letter to the UN last fall,
he wrote: "Here, in Tbilisi, when
we go to the OVIR (office for visas
to Israel), we are struck with
fists and thrown out by the chief
of the OVIR, Comrade Major Kik-
nadze, with shouts: 'Don't ever
come here again for any Jewish
business! That's what we have
been ordered by the higher auth-
orities!'
"Here, I must tell you, Hon-
orable Chairman, that we too
have been ordered by the High-
est Authority to settle in Israel.
Every Jew, according to his
faith, has received a mission for
the Almighty, and our greatest
desire is to settle'in a country
in which our forefathers lived."
Bazukhashvili had taught his
family Hebrew—to prepare them
for the day when, and if, they we
to Israel.
"After the toasts to Dayan, to
a good marriage for me, to our
good health," Berk recalled, "he
told us he wished he had a talis
and a prayer book. My friend gave
-him his own. The man cried as
he draped the talis over his son
Mikhail's shoulder. He said he
would keep it for the boy's Bar
Mitzva.
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