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8:30 p.m. ThursdaY ,at'the Jewish finilly.:±Ja 'permission:to leavelhe MON. Some of his most moving
Center. The:sneaker Will 'be , 'Jos-. Soviet Union along with Ids wife poema Were written while - - he
eph Kerler, poet. author and- lec- -and young-rson.
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was. a,. priaouer ,aid in -exile: in
tured. who' recently was Permitted
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to emigrate to Israel after a long Yiddish poetrY
After .the-;r-Purge,-,-;liii....iverk:Te...
as
a
young
man,
struggle with Soviet authorities.
and hit' - work met with critical maimed unpUblished:'..in_thej, Soviet
Kerler, 'c ailed- the "Yiddish ileclaim in Yiddish cultural cir-
Poet of Protest," will read' from. cies.
member---of the elite
his poems at the assembly, ape*: :group
4eWfah intelleetuali
sored by the Workmen's Circle who were engaged in devehiping

Zol Men Nisht
By JOSEPH KERLER
Zol men nisht gepruvt veni,
tsu
me ken gevoynt vern:
tsu gezaltsns, on a tropn vasser
tsu teg—on zunen shayn
tin tsu vaser—ibern holdz
tsu Teg—on zunen shayn
tsu nekht—on shtern
un tsu der turme-shtayg
mit shleser shvere.
Un ikh fun veysekh wen -
bin shoyn mit alts gepruvt geven.
Un dankn Got:
tsu gornisht nit gevoynt gevorn,
fun tsorn nit antvoynt gevern.

:Mar you Never
May-you- neier have to go; hroUgh
all the thingi-that men get used to;
,salt i .;without a
d rop of water •
food—without salt
water—to drown in, over. your
throat . .
.
to days—without
sunshine,
to nights—without stars
and to the: prison' cage
with locks and bars.
Beginning, when . . . (I couldn't
'• guess)
I've been put through every test.
And thank God
I've gotten used to nothing,
and -I've not been weaned
frail wrath.

Black Panthers in U.S.,
Israel Exchange Ideas

JERUSALEM (JTA) RV* eir-
Panthera here-
Printed..inUterial- and
with chi slack 1,-pailtiieri
Upited States, according to Char
Bitten, a leader of the -
'
-Panthers.
•- Bitton , wive' :•-reeently- ::Zeturned.:
from a. meeting : last •• Month in
Florence,'-itere, he made contatta,
with the U.S. Panthers, said the -
:Americans promised to stage a
solidarity' strike and demonstration.
Whenever. .their • Israeli '"col- .
leagues" do so.
The U.S. Panthers were sympa:-
thetio to pie. Israeli. Panthers, Bit-
ten said,":- Ind eitended "spirittial
encouragement." .

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Union but -was circulated secretly

in manuscript form. Were -it not
for his demands to emigrate,: his
name might have = remained ob-
scure abroad. His poems of pro-
test against cultural versecutien
of Jews were smuggled out of the
country and appeared in the-Jew-
Civil Marriage Would Split Nation,
ish Daily Forward. He repeatedly
applied for an exit visa- and wrote
Golcla Comments on 'Mainzer Day'
to the Soviet- gliVernment agencies
protesting suppietsion of:Yiddish
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier "pray-in. "
The
Golda Meir Wednesday ruled out
Mrs. Heir said the applica- and refusal to allow Jews M.ezni-
civil marriage for Israel on tion of Malaita should be "laced grate..Finally, he won; -
Now that he is id Israel, his pre-
grounds that it would split the with mercy" and said she was
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supported in that attitude by "re- viously Unpublished poems have
been
collected into a book which
Her remarks at a press luncheon Downed rabbinical authority.".
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manding civil marriage. The day opposed to mixed marriages be-
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to a brother and sister deemed not raised as Jews.
"''mamzerim" (illegitbliates) by, the
Rabbi Shlomo Goren, chief rabbi
rabbinical authorities- and denied of Tel Aviv and former chief chap-
marriage licenses on those grounds. lain of Israel's armed forces, said
According to Halakha, persons that Halakha could be applied to
of illegitimate birth may not marry the problems of modern Israel
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