Pravda Publishing Anti-Semitic Novel,
Said to Be Wo rse Than Book by Kichko

NEW YORK (JTA) — A
novel, described by one
Jewish leader here as more
anti-Semitic than anything
written so far by the rabid
anti-Semitic Russian writer
Trofim Kichko, is being
serialized in the mass circu-
lation - Soviet literary maga-
zine "Oktiabr," the Jewish
Labor Committee reported.

USSR Anti-Hijacking Law
Decreed Two Years
After Leningrad Trial
LONDON (JTA) — The
Soviet Union's first anti-hi-
jacking law, decreed Jan. 3
by the presidium of the
Supreme Soviet, writes into
the USSR's penal code penal-
ties imposed two years ago
on nine Jews accused of at-
tempting to hijack a Soviet
airliner in Leningrad to fly
to Israel.

to help Prof. Levich secure
an exit visa to go to Israel.
The Jewish physicist has
been denied a visa and was
fired from his job after ap-
plying for one.

The International Com-
mittee for Human Rights in
the Soviet Union announced
that it will publish a detailed
report and map of Soviet
prisons and labor camps.
According to Hubert Halin,
a committee spokesman, this
was the main project de-
cided on at the International
Symposium on the 50th an-
niversary of the Soviet
Union which was devoted to
reports of the situation of
Jews in the USSR.

sentence of up to 15 years'
imprisonment.
The Kiev sources also re-
ported that there have been
"many" Kiev Jewish fami-
lies who have recently re-
ceived permission to emi-
grate to Israel, but are wait-
ing for the new head tax
regulations to be posted be-
fore paying the old rates.
The NCSJ also reported
that Soviet authorities have
disconnected the telephone
of Valery Partov, the Jew-
i
lab
ballet star, apparently

000 which Soviet authorities
had imposed on a Jewish cit-
izen, Alexander Malchik,
who sought to join his Amer-
ican
wife and 2-year-old
daughter in the U.S.

A letter from Soviet Am-
bassador Anatoly Dodrynin,
delivered by hand to the sen-
ator's office, assured him of
Malchik's release.
The Russian-language ma-
Malchik's American wife,
gazine, which is available
in the United States, carried
the former Laulette Hanson,
sought
the help of Jackson
a 200-page abridgement of
The stiff penalties an-
I he novel, "The Promised nounced in Moscow include
in obtaining the release of
Land," by Yuri Kolesnikov
her husband after months of
the death sentence in cases
because he ignored orders diplomatic effort failed.
in its September and October where a hijacking leads to
to stop making statements to Premier Suggests U.S. Halt
editions.
death or serious injury and
Western newsmen.
Wheat Sale to USSR Until
basic sentences of 3.10 years
An introductory note by
The purge of Jewish
Jews Are Permitted to Leav e
Mrs. Bella Ulman Is shown
and up to 15 years—the
the magazine's editors said
musicians from the Moscow
JERUSALEM (JTA)
maximum Soviet prison term
the novel was to be publish-
— with her Riga activist sox
Solomon Dreizner, 41, a Radio Orchestra is continu- Premier Golda Meir suggest
—if
violence
is
threatened
or
Malta,
who Is jobless and
ed shortly by the Pravda
second Leningrad trial de- ing. Twenty-four Jews have ed that the United States
threatened with prison. Re
publishing house, publishers an accident is caused.
fendant serving a three-year
been dismissed, and only should withhold the sale o f leased recently from the
of the Soviet Communist
The new law applies to the sentence at the Potma forced four
remain with the 80- wheat to the Soviet
Party's daily newspaper,
Union as USSR, Mrs. Ulman has come
hijackers of Soviet planes
labor camp, is facing severe member orchestra. The four long as Russian Jews
Ptavda.
are not to the U.S. to plead for
and to hijackers who land
have
been told that they will permitted to leave
and unjust punishment be-
for
Israel. Misha's exit so they can re•
The note said the maga- non-Soviet planes on Soviet cause he retaliated when as- be fired when replacements
Addressing
the
annual
con- unite in Israel. Mrs. Ulman
zine was publishing . the soil,
are
found,
saulted by a fellow prisoner
vention of the Public Coun- said that Misha has become
•
abridgement in advance be-
At the Leningrad hijack known to be a pathological
The
former
conductor,
cil
for
Soviet
Jewry
at
the more despondent, and that
cause it was vital that the trial of December 1970 in anti-Semite.
Yuri Aaronovich received an Van Leer Institute, Mrs.
cables and letters to him
subject matter receive the which the defendants were
exit
visa
and
went
to
Israel
Meir
said
"It
is
not
inhu-
Dreizner's wife, Lilia, has
would give him a badly need-
widest possible circulation.
last summer.
accused only of attempting
appealed to Soviet Prosecut-
mane for the Americans to ed psychological boost to con-
The book, which is fiction to hijack a plane and in or General Roman Ruden- Malik Attacks Soviet Jewry
condition the sale of grain tinue his fight to leave. His
purported to be based on which no deaths or injuries ko to send a special emis- Appeal Circulated in UN
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) on the Soviet's allowing Jews address is: USSR, Latvian
fact, alleges that the liquid- occurred, death sentences sary to Potma to investigate
to join their brothers."
SSR, Riga, Karl Marx Street
were imposed on Edouard
— The circulation of an ap-
ation of 6,000,000 Jews dur-
the case.
The sale of American 105, apt, 10. Mn. Ulman also
ing World War II was part Kuznetsov and Mark Dym-
peal signed by 239 Soviet
She
said
her
husband
was
wheat
to
the
USSR
to
alle-
urges letters demanding
of an arrangement between shitz; four others received
Jews as an official United
10-year terms cads; one a waylaid as he left his living Nations document was crit- viate severe shortages caused Misha's release be sent to
the Zionists and the Nals.
quarters
by
another
prison-
by
last
year's
poor
crop
is
a
Soviet
First Secretary Leonid
12-year term; one eight
The author alleges that
icized by Soviet Ambassador
er surnamed Erst who hurled
major aspect of the expand. Brezhnev, USSR, RSFSR,
the pact called for the Nazis years; and one a four-year
Yakov Malik in a letter to
anti-Semitic
epithets
at
him
ed U.S.-Soviet trade agreed Moscow, The Kremlin, as
to send younz, healthy Jews term.
Secretary General Kurt Wald-
to at last May's summit well as to Mn. Pat Nixon,
Kuznetsov and Dymshitz and then attacked him phy- hei m.
to Palestine while the Zion-
sically.
meeting In Moscow.
The White House, Washing-
had
their
sentences
com-
ists refused to allow others
The protest, which assert-
Bipartisan resolutions ton, D.C., asking interven-
Because he struck back, ed that the rights of the
muted to 15 years' imprison-
to come.
awaiting
action
in
the
U.S.
tion for the sake of a suffer-
The author claims the ment each after a world- Dreizner was brought before signers had been violated by
committee and the refusal of Soviet officials Senate and House of Repre- ing mother.
t,Zionlsts rejected a proposal wide outcry against the se- a camp
by President Franklin D. verity of the original sen- threatened with punishment, to allow them to emigrate to sentatives this month would
Mrs. Dreizner wrote to Ru- Israel, was circulated in De- withhold most-favored-nation immigration for partisan po-
Roosevelt to admit 1,000.000 tences.
Jews to the U.S., that Mus-
Observers here, speculat- denko.
cember as a General As- status and trade credits from litical purposes In Israel.
solini and Eichmann were ing as to why the tough new
The National Conference sembly document at the re- the Soviet Union as long as
Jewish sources in the Sov-
Zionist agents and that the penalties were published at on Soviet Jewry reported quest of Yosef Tekoah, Is- that country continues to re- iet Union claimed Sunday
strict emigration.
Reich's propaganda minis- this time, noted that the an• that Monday has been set rael's ambassador to the UN.
that the Soviet propaganda
Mrs. Meir, in her address, machine was responsible for
ter, Joseph Goebbels, acted nouncement of the hijack as the date of the trial of
The appeal was submitted
as an intermed'ary between penalties coincided with ef- Lazar Lubarsky, a Rostov after the UN office in Mos- also criticized international recent press reports from
Hitler and the Zionists.
forts to obtain amnesty for engineer accused of giving cow refused to accept the and Israel scientists for not Vienna that Russian Jewish
The novel, which describes Jewish political prisoners, secret documents to unau- petition on the grounds that boycotting scientific confer- emigrants were petitioning
the experiences of a fiction- the Leningrad defendants thorized persons.
a UN administrative order ences in Russia while Soviet for permission to return to
al Jewish character, Chaim among them, in connection
Isak Skolnik, a 36-year-old prevented the officials from authorities demand an exorb- the USSR because they were
Volbiter, w h o emigrates with the Soviet Union's 50th engineer from Vinnitsa, ar- accepting petitions from in- itant head tax from Jewish misled by Zinoists about con-
academicians seeking to ditions in Israel.
from Bessarabia to Palestine anniversary observances.
rested in July 1972 for being dividuals.
leave.
in 1940, denounces Judaism
In New York, Rabbi Ar- a "traitor to the state" and Victory for Jews Seeking
According to the sources,
and describes rabbis as mass thur Hertzberg, president of of having "contacts with to Join Family In U.S.
Prof. Yuval Neeman of Tel none of the Jews reportedly
Aviv
murderers, Gestapo agents the American Jewish Con- Englishmen," is expected to
University
estimated
seeking
to return are known
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
and pimps.
gress, accused the Soviet be brought to trial soon, ac- Efforts by Sen. Henry M. that there are about 370,:- to have applied for exit visas.
Judge Jacob T. Zucker- Union of "hypocrisy" in im- cording to Jewish sources in Jackson (D.Wash.)
000 Russian Jews with aca-
All seem to have gotten
have suc-
man, president of the Jew- posing stiff penalties for Kiev. The sources said he ceeded
demic training. If the fami- their visas without the slight-
in obtaining a waiver
lies of these professionals are est difficulty, and the conclu-
ish Labor Committee, said skyjacking at home whi'-' could receive a maximum
of an exit fee of nearly $10,-
that "the publication by a working to "undermine and
counted, this means that sion to be drawn, the sources
propaganda agency of the scuttle" efforts to deter in-
about one-third of all Rus- said, is that these Jews are
Soviet Communist Party of ternational air p ir a c y
sian Jews are penalized by "used" by the KGB.
a virulent anti-Semitic book" through the United Nations.
the education bead tax, he
In Philadelphia thousands
Meanwhile, the
was "cause to fear that a
said.
Moscow
of black balloons bearing the
new, intensified anti-Semitic
synagogue o n Archipovo
Prof. Neeman added that message "Free Soviet Jew-
campaign will follow" in the St. was placed under heavy
r:e world scientific commun- ry" and a night-time candle-
USSR.
guard on the day amnesties
ity must give Jewish scien- light vigil greeted the Mos-
Zuckerman observed that were granted.
tists in Russia all the protec- cow Circus as it opened
at
the book could not have been
The sources said wor-
tion that international public- the Spectrum.
published without the ex- shipers were not permitted
ity can afford.
The objective of the week-
press approval of the Com- to congregate outside the
Avraham Harman, presi- end demonstrations, accord-
munist Party's Central Com- synagogue and were ordered
dent of Hebrew University ing to the youth, leaders, was
mittee.
over loudspeakers to dis-
and president of the Public to convince Congress to deny
Zuckerman said "The perse.
Council for Soviet Jewry, said most-favored-nation s t at us
Promised Land" was more
Traffic, normally sparse
that up to the Six-Day War to the USSR until the ran-
slanderous of Jews and on the Moscow side street,
only about 7,000 Jews left som tax is repealed, and to
Judaism than "Judaism was diverted from other
Russia for Israel, while since call attention to the plight
Without Embellishment" by streets through Archipovo
then 50,000 have come. He of some 40 Jewish prisoners
Kichko, the Ukrainian phil- Street to give police an ex-
said this proved that the of conscience.
osophy professor.
cuse to disperse the wor-
USSR responds to changes
A vigil across the street
Members of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry stage a
The latter book, published shipers, the sources said.
in circumstances.
from the Soviet Embassy in
in Kiev in 1963, was subse-
In a phone conversation, "Pepsi Party," dumping Pepsi Cola from a major New York
It is up to Israel and world Washington featured a sol-
quently withdrawn from cir- Prof. Benjamin Levich ex- City bridge. The students charged that Pepsi has "joined
Jewry to exploit Russia's emn birthday celebration for
culation by the Soviet au- pressed thanks to the Fel- the slave trade generation by concluding a deal to sell the
need for economic conces- Boris Perison, the Jewish
thorities following protests lows of the Royal Society in soda across the USSR while the Kremlin continues to barter
sions from the West, Harman artist who is 27 and lan-
from Jews and non-Jews all London who sponsored an in Jewish lives." At center, a youth releases Pepsi cans stated.
guishing in a prison camp
over the world.
appeal on his behalf signed marked with messages and attached to balloons toward
Dr. Zeev Ravitsky, a Mos- in Potma.
Zuckerman urged "all de- by 3,000 scientists of all UN and New York Pepsi bottling plant nearby. The agree-
cow chemist who recently ar-
A collection of his paint-
cent people" to protest to the faiths - around the world.
meat concluded between the Pepsico Co. and the Soviet
rived in Israel, urged the In- ings, smuggled out of Rus-
Soviet authorities against the
The appeal was addressed Ministry of Trade enables Pepsi Cola to become the first ternational Red Cross to visit
sia by a friend, is now on
latest anti-Semitic outpour- to the Soviet scientific corn- American consumer product manufactured and
sold in the Jewish political prisoners in display at the Jewish Muse-
ing.
munity urging it to intervene Soviet Union. A boycott is also urged of Pepsico's subsidiary the USSR.
um in New York and is ex-
products including Monsieur Henri Wines, Frito-Lay pro-
He also assailed the ex- pected soon to tour the coun-
SO — Friday, Jan. 12, 1973
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ducts and other soft drinks.
ploitation
of
Russian-Jewish
.
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