Soviets O bject
Interference
on Behalf of Jews Going on Trial

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that protests against Russian re-
fusals to grant visas to Jews de-
siring to go to Israel are continu-
ing and that Russian Jews are
pressing for the right to emigrate.
The United Federation of Teach-
ers and the Jewish Labor Commit-
tee joined forces to bring pressure
to bear on American officials to
intervene more actively on behalf
of Soviet Jews. Their combined
activity will be channeled through
a joint committee composed of the
leadership of both the JLC and the
70,000-member UFT, the largest
union local in the U.S.
Informed Jewish sources report-
ed that the director of the visa
office in Kharkov has threatened
Jews there with arrest if they con-
tinue to clamor for exit visas. The
director, identified as a Maj. Dav-
idov, reportedly told a group of
Jews that "the situation has
changed. We will not give any
more visas."
In Hyannis, Mass., "Poli
tically motivated" convictions and
imprisonment of Soviet Russian
Jews were protested and con-
demned by the executive council
of• the Textile Workers Union of
America, AFL-CIO at a five-day
meeting. The 22-member TWUA
Council, called upon the Soviet
government to "grant its Jew-
ish minority religious and cultural
freedom and the right to emigrate
"freely."
JTA reported on Tuesday that
11 more Soviet Jewish mothers
have petitioned the Soviet authori-
ties to let their children go to Israel
even if they themselves' have to
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Tuesday. The Lithuanian mothers
—two of them identified as Ruth
Glickman and Anette Grossman—
have a total of 14 children. The
JTA reported June 1 that 12 Jew-
ish women of Moscow with a total
of 15 children had made such an
unprecedented request.
The Lithuanian petition was sub-
mitted Monday, the sources said.
They also reported that 32 of the
70 Vilna Jews who sat in at Com-
munist Party headquarters on two
successive days last week carried
out a similar protest in Moscow
Monday, sitting in at the ministry
of internal affairs and demanding
action on their delayed emigration
applications. Just as the 70 Jews
were dispersed by the police, the
32 were forcibly removed from the
ministry at 11 p.m. after they re-
fused to leave. They were not re-
ceived by the ministry officials.
In another incident in Moscow, 27-
year-old Yulia Libman of Riga,
who had applied unsuccessfully
for emigration nine times, em-
barked on a hunger strike at the
ministry, Jewish sources said. She
has a husband and a 5-year-old
son.
Jewish sources reported to JTA
that the trial of Roiza Palatnik,
which had been expected to open
Wednesday in Odessa, has been
postponed until June 23. Miss
Palatnik, 35, a librarian, was
arrested Dec. 1 and has been
held incommunicado since then.
She is charged under the Ukrain-
ian criminal code with slander-
ing the Soviet Union.
According to the sources, Soviet
authorities have "invited" her sis-
ter, Katya, and an unidentified
cousin to testify for the prosecu-
tion.
The widow and son of the well-
known Soviet Jewish writer, Per-
etz Markish, have appealed to the
presidium of the Supreme Soviet
to overrule the Moscow visa office
which rejected their application
for a visa to go to Israel.
Peretz Markish was executed
on Aug. 12, 1952, a victim of the
Stalin purge. He was rehabili-
tated posthumously after Stalin's
death and several of his books
were republished. His widow has
been receiving a pension from
the Soviet government.
It is reported that a well-known
Russian-Jewish painter, Mikhail
Pirovhkov, was seriously injured
when assaulted by anti-Semitic
hooligans on a Moscow street May
28 and is still in a hospital. The
sources said Pirovhkov was look-
ing for a taxi when he was beaten
up. They said his assailants told

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him, "Jews aren't going to ride in
taxis in Moscow any more."
A "Commission of Inquiry" into
Serving as counsel to the Com-
15 Arrested at U.S. Mission,
the rights of Soviet Jews—com- mission of Inquiry will be Joel
Charge State Dept. Inaction
posed of distinguished civic and J. Sprayregen of Chicago, gen-
eral counsel of the Illinois divi-
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) religious leaders—will conduct a
sion of the American Civil Lib-
—Twelve rabbis, two Jewish pro- day-long hearing in New York City
fessors and the national coordina- on Tuesday, taking eye-witness erties Union.
tor of the Student Struggle for testimony from recent visitors to
Meir Gelfand, a Soviet Jewish
Soviet Jewry were arrested and the USSR and recent Soviet Jewish physician who emigrated to Israel
charged with criminal trespass emigres to Israel.
in March from Moscow, where he
Monday a f ter they handcuffed
The hearing will take place 9:30 was a leader of the Jewish protest
themselves to the United States a.m.-6 p.m. at the Carnegie En- movement, and Alexander Gittel-
Mission for two hours to protest dowment International Center, 345 son, a scholar and Jewish activist
the State Department's alleged E. 46th St.
from Leningrad who arrived in
failure to take "meaningful" ac-
Israel in April, will fly to the U.S.
Bayard
Rustin,
executive
director
tion to aid Soviet Jewry.
of the A. Philip Randolph Insti- to testify at the commission hear-
Five of the rabbis had sat in at tute, is serving as chairman of the ing.
the mission for 3 1/2 hours June 9 commission, whose members in-
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Dr. Hans J. Morgenthau, profes-
to cry out. If this can be in no sor of political science at both the
other way than by civil disobedi- City University of New York and
ence, then we accept the conse- the University of Chicago;
quences." A police department
The Rt. Rev. J. Brooke Mosley,
spokesman said penalties in president of the Union Theological
such a case were at the judge's Seminary;
discretion, but added that in this
Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, for-
particular case—with all the dem-
Installed and
onstrators first offenders — the mer chief allied prosecutor at the
charges would likely be dropped. Nuremberg War Crimes Trials and
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Dr. George Wald, Nobel Prize
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"first bust" for himself and the laureate and professor of biology
at Harvard University.
other 14 demonstrators.
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George Bush accepted an "ur-
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tian leaders and they stayed on
for half an hour discussing ways
of alleviating the plight of Soviet
Jewry.
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was presented to him and Deputy
Ambassador Christopher H. Phil-
lips by an interfaith delegation
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tional chairman of the Anti.:
Defamation League of Bnai Brith;
which has formulated the text of
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