World Jewish Leaders Pledge New Effort for Their Soviet Brethren
asked to pay 17,000 rubles r
and refused, the authorities
"gave in, and here I am,"
he said.
Yankl Khantsis, a Soviet
Jewish activist who was
sentenced to 18 months im-
prisonment at the Riga trial
in May, 1971, and was due
to be released, was instead
resentenced on Dec. 29 to a
two-year term in a labor
camp, it was reported.
The new sentencing occur-
red - while Khantsis was still
in prison in Omutninsk in the
Kirov District. The basis for
the resentencing was not im-
mediately known. Khantsis
has not yet been transferred
to the labor camp because of
his inability to walk due to
a leg disease.
In another development,
Malcolm Iloenlein, director
of the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
reported that many of the 50
Among the 600 Russian Jewish migrants now in the Jews who participated in the
greater New York area is an 11-year-old violinist, Gennady sit-in at the Supreme Soviet
Filimonov, so talented that he has been awarded a scholar- on Dec. 18 are now being
ship at the Manhattan School of Music. Here Gennady de- threatened with arrest for
scribes some of the fine points of bowmanship to his brother "parasitism."
Michael. 16. The two boys and their mother, Mrs. Lioud-
Soviet authorities have
mila Filimonova, were aided after their arrival in the turned down two appeals for
United States by NYANA, the New York Association for amnesty for Sylva Zalmon-
New Americans.
son Kuznetsov, who is serv-
ing a 10-year prison term
Jewish sources in the So- Union, arrived from Vienna after being sentenced at the
viet Union reported that the with his wife, daughter and first Leningrad hijacking trial'
new regulations on graduates his parents, together with a of December 1970.
Both appeals were made
going to Israel have been in' group of Soviet Jews.
in the past few weeks by
force since Dec. 26 and a
"At least 20 Jewish aca-
friends in the Soviet Union as
preliminary estimate of their
demicians and their families
well as by fellow prisoners.
working can now be made.
in the Soviet Union who in-
The 25th anniversary of
Most ovir offices began to sisted on not paying the ran-
apply them on Jan. 1, but in som money demanded by the Stalin's murder of Solomon
the Lithuanian Soviet Repub- authorities have received exit Mikhoels, the world-famous
lic they were first applied on visas without paying any- Yiddish actor and director of
Moscow's State Jewish
Dec. 26.
thing," Perelman told news-
Those who worked for 25 men at Lod Airport. "This Th eater, was commemorated
years are asked to pay only is the only way to fight the this week in special Yiddish
Russian programs
25 per cent of the tax, which ' , ransom money. Only this is
beamed to the Soviet Union
is estimated in accordance the right way."
over Radio Liberty to serve
with their degree and pro - .
Perelman, 43, a former the cultural needs and inter-
fessional skill. Those who
member
of
the
editorial
staff
ests
in particular of the So-
worked 15 years are asked
to pay 50 per cent of the tax. o( the Soviet Writers Union viet Jewish audience.
The details of Mikhoel's
Those who worked eight publication, Literaturnaya
years are asked to pay 75 was ousted from his position death have never been re-
the
day
after
he
asked
for
vealed
by the Soviet regime.
per cent of the tax.
The basic periods for wont- exit visas. When he was However, many reliable
en are 20, 12 and six years,
and the reductions are calcu-
lated the same way. Pen-
sioners and invalids are ex-
empted altogether.
In some cases, applicants
who have university degrees
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
demands. The HWC Is the
but did no postgraduate work
Three Jewish social service
dispersing agency for UGF
were exempted entirely.
agencies
in
the
greater
Wash-
collected funds.
According to the sources,
ington
area
will
be
deprived
ovir officials have told appli-
Seven local Red Cross
cants that the new regula- of financial aid from the chapters which last year re-
tions apply only to the level areawide United Givers Fund ceived a fifth of the 51,400,-
of the tax, but should not be if by Sept. 1 at least 20 per 000 donated to the UGF are
seen as changes in the rules cent of their boards of di- not members of the HWC
for the granting of exit visas. rectors are not members of and therefore are not sub-
It is therefore clea r that minority groups — Blacks jected to its rulings. Fifteen
most people under 40 will not or Spanish-speaking persons. of the 87 UGF groups have
The three organizations, ac- not yet complied with the
benefit from the new rules,
and that the new regulations cording to an outside source, quotas.
are still a great handicap be- received a total of $399,603
It was indicated that they
lie said that 3: (.1" Soviet cause even
50 per cent or 25 last year from the UGF. The
IraiI per cent of the tax on most heads of the three Jewish will he by the September
statk• graduates amounts to a sum agencies confirmed the figure deadline, with the possible
exception of the Jewish agen-
turned very few can afford.
Monday and provided the cies which have not reached
to
to court-
The National Union of Ken- Jewish Telegraphic Agency any decision in advance of
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f.;;IANIE'ti: GOES• demned the Russian ransom
The Jewish Social Service leaders have indicated pri-
imposed on Jewish aca- Agency was given $225,000
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demics.
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head tax to leave the Sfaviet get of $2,496,000, and the
they fear will ultimately
Jewish Community Center of cause the disappearance cf
Greater Washington got their organizations' Jewish
about $80,000 toward its character.
budget of $1,300,000.
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NEW YORK (JTAI—World
Jewish leaders, meeting last
week in closed session in
Geneva, unanimously com-
mitted themselves to utilizing
"all efforts to impress on our
governments and academic
a n d scientific associations.
the business community and
trade unions the need to con-
vince Soviet authorities to
accede to demands to cease
all discriminatory practices
toward its Jewish citizenry
and to rescind the diploma
tax."
Accordingto Charlotte Jac-
obson, vice chairman of the
National Conference on So-
viet Jewry, ancOtiairman of
the American delegation,
"While recognizing recent
moves toward improving re-
lations between the USSR
and the Western world in
political, cultural and eco-
nomic fields, the leaders
from 13 countries declared
support for the Jewish com-
munity in America in its sup-
port of legislation linking
trade to the exorbitant exit
fees, as well as continuing
discriminatory practices re-
garding Jewish emigration
from the Soviet Union."
Mrs. Jacobson stated that
the recent interview by So-
viet Deputy Interior Minister
Boris T. Shumilin was dis-
cussed at great length and it
was agreed that ''despite its
declared modification of the
exit fees for educated citi-
zens, notably Jews, It does
not represent any basic
change in Soviet policy in re-
gard to the right to leave the
Soviet Union."
The delegates agreed to
wait and Nee how Shumilin's
press statement will repre-
sent future policy before rec-
ommending additional pro-
posals.
In a declaration adopted at
the end of the meeting, the
delegates pledged to continue i
to seek amnesty for Soviet
Jewish prisoners of con-
science, to protest continuing
arrests and harassment of
Jewish activists, to rebuild
institutions for Jewish sur-
vival in the USSR and to urge
the Soviet Union to halt anti-
Semitic propaganda in the
mass media.
Louis Pincus, chairman of ,
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion Executive, on whose in-
itiative the meeting was I
called, told the all-day con-1
terence, "We do not set the
priorities for Soviet Jewry.
They set the priorities, and '
they want to emigrate.
Pincus estimated that 100,-
000 applications had been
made by Soviet Jews for em-,'
igration to Israel which havel
so far been refuse,: by the '
Soviet authoritie
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WILSON
sources including Stalin's also provided personal rem-
daughter, Svetlana Alliluy- iniscences of Mikhoels, who
eva, have reported that it she knew in Moscow.
was an intentional murder
disguised as an "automobile
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW
accident." This event sig-
naled the beginning of the 16—Friday, Jan. 19, 1973
period that has come to be
called the "Black Years"
(1948-1953). daring which
Yiddish culture in the USSR
was destroyed. .
According to Dr. Gene So-
sin, Radio Liberty's director
of broadcasting planning, the
station's programs featured
the voice of Mikhoels acting
the dream scene from his
theater's stage version of
"Tevye the Milkman."
The recording was provided
20811 W. 8 Mile
by Prof. Herbert Paper of
between Southfield • Telegraph
the University of Michigan.
Other broadcasts included
a reading of Peretz Markish's
elegy, "To Solomon Mikhoels
—an Eternal Light at His
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