Mrs. Aleksandrovich to Address
Rally for Soviet Jews Wednesday
A public rally called on behalf of
Soviet Jewish prisoners will be ad-
dressed by the mother of one of
them—Rivka Aleksandrovich-8:15
p.m. Wednesday at Temple
Emanu-El.
Sharing the platform will be
Genesee Prosecuting Attorney Rob-
ert Leonard, whose recent fact-
finding trip to the Soviet Union re-
sulted in a strong statement from
the National District Attorneys
Association calling for an end to
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everything," Shlonsky reported.
Shazar sent a cable to Gaponov
and his mother, who flew here
with Jews from Riga, Kovno, Len-
ingrad, Tashkent and Vilna —
among them Jacob Nossik, a shohet
from Samarkand who held on
tightly to a Torah scroll he brought
with him.
Gaponov, who arrived here
from Leningrad by way of Vien-
na, taught himself Hebrew in
secret in the Georgian Republic
and went on to win Israel's pres-
tigious Tchernichovsky award
for Hebrew literature for his
1969 translation of "The Man in
the Tiger's Skin," a 1,669-stanza
12th Century epic poem.
He then applied for permission
to go to Israel but was turned
down until he developed menin-
gitis, according to his mother. He
was operated on in Leningrad be-
fore leaving.
The poet's mother said the Rus-
garita Shpilberg in Riga, wife of
Arkady Shpilberg who was sen-
tenced by a Riga court to three
years in prison, it was confirmed
Saturday night 'that Ruth Aleksan-
drovich is in extremely poor health
suffering from asthma and a kidney
ailment.
The call, conducted by Zev Yaro-
slaysky, chairman of the California
Students for Soviet Jewry, lasted
more than 10 minutes.
Mrs. Shpilberg confirmed reports
that the time spent by Miss Alek-
sandrovich in prison since last Oc-
tober would be deducted from the
one-year sentence handed down by
the same court last week.
The two other Jewish defendants
sentenced were Mikhail Shepshelo-
vich for two years, and Boris Maft-
sier for one year. The seven months
Maftsier spent in prison prior to his
trial also is expected to be deducted
from his sentence.
During her telephone conversa-
tion, Mrs. Shpilberg said, "We
want to go to Israel. All the de-
fendants were innocent, and now
one of them suffers from poor
health." When asked if she had
RIVKA ALEKSANDROVICH
anything to tell the world, she re-
plied, "Let us go home."
"anti-Soviet s 1 a n d e r." Her
Minutes after that call, radio
"crime," however, was the de-
station KABC, an American Broad-
sire to study the history and
casting Co. affiliate, placed a tele-
language of her people and to
chael Zand, in
phone call to Prof. Mi
emigrate from the Soviet Union
Moscow.
to Israel.
The call placed by newscaster
Ruth, 23, had been arrested one Ray Briem and also organized by
week prior to her scheduled mar- the student group was cut short
riage and held incommunicado un- after Moscow operators apparently
til the trial opened in Riga May 24. felt that the call had become too
Her mother and brother were per-
mitted to emigrate to Israel, and political.
Briem had asked Dr. Zand two
since that time Mrs. Aleksandro-
vich has been on a speaking tour innocuous questions and then asked
on behalf of her daughter and whether he had received an exit
visa in recent days. At that point
other political prisoners.
Hubert J. Sidlow, president of the ABC broadcaster could no lon-
the Jewish Community Council, ger hear Dr. Zand.
The operator in Moscow stated,
and Bernard Panush, chairman of
Council's committee on Soviet Jew- "Zand could not hear California.
ry, invite the public to the rally. He refused to speak on such a poor
Rabbi Milton Rosenbaum will de- line. And he left the house for a
liver a prayer for Soviet Jewish walk." Before the call was put on
the air, Yaroslaysky asked Dr.
prisoners. Sidlow will preside.
(Prior to coming to Detroit, Mrs. Zand how his health was. Dr. Zand
Aleksandrovich will appear at a replied: "Not bad, but not so good
function at Woodside Church, Flint. either."
Yaroslaysky called the discon-
That meeting has been arranged
nection intentional, ridiculous and
by the Flint Interfaith Council.)
fraudulent. .
Twelve Soviet Jewish motheis -
Tekoah, Mrs. Aleksandrovich
have
reportedly petitioned tile
Meet With Thant on Trials
Soviet authorities to let their
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) children go to Israel even though
—Israel's ambassador to the United they may have to stay behind. •
Nations, Yosef Tekoah, called on The-mothers reportedly explained
Secretary General U Thant and that they felt their children would
drew his attention to the continua- get a better Jewish education it
tion of trials in the USSR.
Israel than they would in the
Tekoah was accompanied by Mrs. USSR.
Rivka Aleksandrovich, mother of
Meanwhile, 174 Russian Jews
the 23-year-old nurse, Ruth Alek- have written to the presidium of
sandrovich. Mrs. Aleksandrovich the Supreme Soviet, the Russian
pleaded with U Thant to help save Parliament and Prosecutor Gen-
her daughter and other Jews per- eral Roman A. Rudenko to protest
secuted for their desire to unite the trials of Jews in Leningrad and
with their families and people in Riga and the planned trial in
Israel.
Kishinev.
Tekoah transmitted to U Thant
Information on the March 25
additional letters from Soviet Jews letter reached London after details
requesting UN assistance to ensure were smuggled out by a tourist.
their rights to leave for Israel.
The writers asserted that the trials
Following the meeting, Tekoah have "the aim of committing one
declared the Jews sentenced in more reprisal against Jews who
the two Leningrad trials, the wish to live in Israel and of fright-
trial in Riga, and those whose ening those who are trying to
trials are to open in Kharkov, achieve departure for Israel."
Kishinev and Tbilsi are "heroes
The protest concluded with an
of the relentless struggle of So- "appeal to you to do everything
viet Jewry for the right of Jews possible to prevent a judicial re-
to live as Jews, learn the lan- prisal against innocent people."
guage and history of their people Soviet Jewish Poet, Meningitis
and to live in the Jewish state." Victim, Arrives in Israel
He said their "dedication and
TEL AVIV (JTA) — President
courage" should earn them the Zalman Shazar and poet Avraham
love, respect and support of wide Shlonsky were among those who
masses, Jews and non-Jews, in the wished Boris Gaponov well last
Soviet Union and in all parts of weekend after the Soviet Jewish
the world."
poet arrived here in critical con-
Mrs. Shpilberg Confirms
dition.
Ruth Is Ill; Zand Tells Caller
The 37-year-old Gaponov, a vic-
tim of meningitis who is being
His Health 'Not So Good'
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — In a treated at Tel Hashomer Hospital,
telephone conversation with Mar- cannot speak, "but his eyes said
secret trials of Jews seeking exo-
dus.
The rally is under the sponsor-
ship of the Jewish Community
Council, in cooperation with the
Detroit Action Committee on So-
viet Jewry.
Mrs. Aleksandrovich is the
mother of young Ruth Aleksan-
drovich, who was sentenced last
week to a year's sentence for
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
26—Friday, June 4, 1971
sian police had charged him with
possession of illegal writings, but
had never interrogated him. When
two tourists wanted to visit him,
she said, the authorities warned
him not to let them come over,
and instead had the trio meet in
a room selected by the police.
All of Gaponov's manuscripts
were confiscated before he left the
Soviet Union, she added. Now she
maintains a round-the-clock vigil
at her ailing son's bedside and says
"Only a miracle can' save him•"
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