Two Soviet Jews Are Standing Trial

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sponsoring a march on Fifth
Avenue May 6.
In Stockholm, demonstra-
tions broke out protesting the
start of a four-day official
visit by Soviet Premier Alexei
Kosygin.
Harassments, Many Trials
Reported From USSR
LONDON (JTA) — Trials
of two Russian Jews, both of
whom had applied for exit
visas to Israel, and continued
harassment of other Jews
who also had applied for exit
visas, were reported from the
Soviet Union Tuesday.
The trial of Isaac Shkolnik,
charged with spying for Is-
rael, continued in the Vicine
brick factory under circum-
stances suggesting a secret
trial. All outsiders, including,
members of Shkolnik's fam-
ily, are barred from the
courtroom.
It was learned that 46 wit-
nesses have been called, with
some instructed to appear
Tuesday, meaning that a ver-
dict is unlikely before Thurs-
day.
In Leningrad, a trial was
opened against Nikolai Ya-
vor, a mathematician and
Jewish activist, on charges of
a misdemeanor for which the
usual punishment is one year
in a forced labor camp.
Yavor and his wife, a ge-
ologist, were asked to pay
$14,000 for exit visas at the
end of 1972 but were unable
to raise the money.
Yavor lost his job and a
few weeks later he was sen-
tenced to a 10-day jail term
for being "drunk and dis-
orderly." The sources said
Yavor does not drink.
Anxiety has been expressed
in artistic circles over the
condition of Valery Panov.
t h e Russian-Jewish dancer
who was fired from Lenin-
grad's Kirov Ballet Co. when
he applied for a visa to emi-
grate to Israel. Panov, who
spoke by telephone to a friend
with the Bat She v a Dor
Dance Group of Israel, said
he has been denied a visa
and "the only thing for me

to do is to commit suicide. -
The Bat Sheva Bat Dor
dancers gave a special per-
formance on behalf of Panov
Saturday.
A son of Alexander Voronel,
a Moscow Jewish activist,
was expelled from Moscow
University "for failure to
make progress."
A number of Jewish fam-
ilies in Tchernogolovka, a
satellite town built by scien-
tists and their families, were
insulted by hooligans who
entered their homes and
screamed anti-Semitic insults
at them. Militia finally came
to expel them. In some of
the institutes of chemistry
and physics in the satellite
town, lists prepared by the
local Communist Party, have
been circulated against Jew-
ish scientists who have ap-
plied for exit visas to Israel.
Vitaly Milman, one of the
scientists who works in the
town, made a visit to the
Communist Party offices and
demanded that a c t i o n be
taken against persons making
anti-Semitic remarks at a
meeting of sri-ntists. He was
told the issue would be con-
sidered at thL next meeting
of the committee but the
question was not on the
agenda.
Gregory and Isaai Gold-
stein of Tblisi appealed to the
first secretary of the Com-
munist Party in Soviet Geor-
gia and to the Georgian pros-
ecutor general for an immed-
iate termination of harass-
ment of both of them and of
searches of their homes by
the KGB secret police. They
said such measures against
"blameless citizens" were
both illegal and damaging to
the good name of the Geor-
gian Soviet Republic.
Two Jews in Vilna, Sarah
Gafanovitz a n d Vladimir
Drot, have sued the Soviet
Lithuanian postal authorities
for disconnecting their tele-
phones for which bills had
been paid regularly.
A memorial meeting for
the local martyrs of the Nazi
occupation took place in

Minsk with 50 Jews meeting
to pay homage to 5,000 vic-
tims of the Nazis. A militia
detachment w a s stationed
near the memorial where the
meeting took place but did
not interfere.
An anti-Semitic article in
the Minsk Literary Magazine
brought a direct public reply
by a group of local Jews. The
article entitled "Invasion
Without Arms" was written
by Vladimir Bagun and
claimed that Jews every-
where constitute a danger to
the indigenous cultures.
According to Jewish sources
in the Soviet Union, the reply
was signed by Alexander Mil-
man, Mark Vilenkin, Sofia
Goberman and Tamara Ni-
kolai.
A variety of similar devel-
opments w e r e reported in
New York by the Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry.
On March 27, a group of Jews
visited the offices of Izvestia
with a letter demanded that
the government newspaper
write reports on the plight
of Soviet Jews who seek to
leave the USSR.
The SSSJ also reported that
Marina Tiemkin, who was
kidnaped Feb. 19, was still
meeting her father. She told
the SSSJ via telephone that
the Moscow police were
claiming they had nothing
to do with the abduction,
even though Tiemkin and his
parents had personally wit-
nessed it.
The _group also reported
that 111 relatives of Jewish
"Prisons of Conscience" in
Soviet labor camps have sent
an appeal to the Soviet pro-
curator, Gen. Roman Ru-
denko, UN Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim and the UN
Human Rights Commission.
The appeal detailed punish-
ment meted out to many of
the prisoners.
SSSJ also reported that 112
Moscow Jews, 12 Kharkov
Jews and eight Odessa Jews
have written to Soviet Presi-
dent Podgorny, Premier Ko-
sygin and Secretary Brezh-
nev, appealing for exit per-
mission for the Kerbel family
of Kharkov. They said Mrs.
Adel Kerbel, 35, was rapidly
weakening from multiple
sclerosis and that the only
but from inside knowledge." hope left for her in life was
The former envoy said that to go to Israel.
Israel is assured of continued
arms supplies from the U.S.
for at least three more years.
He conceded that israel and
the U.S. disagreed on the
eventual shape of an overall
settlement in the Middle East
but said that neither party
wished to allow that "far off"
issue to create friction.

18—Friday, April 6, 1973

Many Soviet Jews have ex-
pressed appreciation to Sen.

Happiness Is An Indoor Supply of Water

Henry M. Jackson for his
efforts on their behalf.
The Soviet Yiddish monthly,
Sovietishe Heimland, p u b -
lished a bit t e r attack on
Esther Markish, widow of
the late Russian-Yiddish poet
Peretz Markish, who recently
emigrated to Israel with her
son David. The publication
implied that Mrs. Markish's
interest in h e r husband's
works is based on "financial
considerations."
The article referred through-
out to Mrs. Markish by her
maiden name, Lazebnikova,
and sought to draw a distinc-
tion between he r s elf and
Peretz Markish who was
murdered in the Stalin purge
of Jewish writers and intel-
lectuals during the early
1950s.
(Albania's Co mmunist
party newspaper Zeri i Pop-
ullit condemned the USSR
for the reported lifting of the
education tax on Jewish emi-
gres, charging that it proved
that "Soviet revisionists are
drawing ever closer to Is-
rael.")

JERUSALEM — The 3,000
Arab villagers of Sur Bahir in
southern Jerusalem marked
a special event recently.
They now have water flowing

directly into their homes.
The Jerusalem municipality
completed the project in
eight months at a cost of 11.4
500,000 ($125,000).

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Rabin: Nixon Reassures Israel

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Gen.
Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's for-
mer ambassador to the Unit-
ed States, said that Israel
would not be denied its re-
quests for conventional arms
from the United States as
long as President Nixon re-
mains in office. Rabin spoke
at an Engineers Club lunch-
eon here Friday. He said, "I
say this not as an evaluation

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