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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 13, 1973-45

Novelist Slaps
Israeli Critics
of Own Country

WASHINGTON (JTA) — ures of the United States and . the imprisoned and ailing activity, arrived in Israel via
President Nixon Tuesday Israel joined with leaders of Sylva Zalmanson — and ask- Bucharest with his parents. applied for exit visas to emi-
grate to Israel. The girl was
asked authority to extend the American Jewish corn- ing the UN to act for the
Released last January, Gal- denied a visa when her
U.S. governmental trade ben- munity last Friday to mark freedom of his family.
perin, 27, had to pay an edu- mother, who is divorced from
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
efits to any country, includ- the signing of agreements un-
Yosef Tekoah, Israel's UN
Tiemkin, refused to grant tendency among some Israeli
ing the Soviet Union, without der which the U.S. govern- ambassador, came to ex- cation tax of 7,000 rubles.
Another Russian immi- her permission to leave the intellectuals to "debunk" Is-
prior congressional sanction ment made $31,000,000 avail- press his support to Zalman-
country. (Local story Page rael's achievements and the
when he deemed it in the na- able for the resettlement in son. Tekoah told him that he grant, who had to pay about 17).
personalities of its political
tional interest. But he offer- Israel of Soviet Jewish ref- discussed the matter of $10,000 in education taxes,
has joined the staff of the Report 4 Per Cent of Soviet leaders was deplored by
ed Congress a compromise in ugees.
Sylva Zalmanson with Secre- University of the Negev in Jewish Emigres Leave Israel Cynthia Ozick, novelist and
the form of a veto on the
In brief ceremonies, Frank tary General Waldheim in Beersheba.
JERUSALEM (JTA)--The essayist, at a symposium on
issue of granting most-favor- Kellogg, special assistant to order to obtain her release.
absorption ministry has esti- "The Impact of Israel Upon
Dr.
Anatoly
Gorbaty,
for-
ed nation status.
Secretary of State William He said that he is going to
the Diaspora," sponsored by
The President's request P. Rogers for refugee and bring up the issue again the merly a reader in the de- mated that 4 per cent of the he American Jewish Con-
Russian immigrants arriving,
partment
of
structural
me-
was contained in a 134-page migration affairs, signed a next time he will confer with
chanics at the Institute of in Israel have decided to re- gress.
legislative proposal to Con- contract transferring the Waldheim.
"I think we need in some
Railway Engineers in Novo- emigrate to other countries,
gress enfcitled the "Trade funds to the United Israel
Zalmanson told JTA that
compared to 8 per cent of way to learn to take mythol-
sibirsk,
arrived
recently
with
Reform Act of 1973.” Appeal, an accredited Ameri- he is a diabetic and said that
his wife, Hannah, a building all other immigrants who ogy seriously, even if it is
since the arrest of his family
Vroposals appeared to can voluntary agency.
our own," Ms. Ozick said.
have decided to leave.
in
the Soviet Union he had engineer who paid the same
be
for more presi-
Melvin Dubinsky of St.
"I stand in terror of falling
These and other figures
education tax as her hus-
dential power over trade than Louis, president and chair- conducted eight such hunger band; his brother, Chaim, dealing with Soviet Jewish into idolatry and magic, but
any other American presi- man of the UIA board, and strikes, four of them at the who paid 6,000 rubles; and emigres were reported in the I stand in equal terror of
dent in history to help meet Gottlieb Hammer, of New Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. ,14is parents, who were ex- newspaper Maariv. The time falling into the hands of the
Earlier, Mark Yampolsky empt from the tax.
the competition U.S. indus- York, UIA's executive vice
period to which the figures de-mythologizers who do not
try faces in overseas mar- president, signed for the broke his eight-day hunger -
The American Jewish Con- pertained was not made recognize that Jerusalem is
kets.
v aster than its geography
agency. The UIA immediate- strike opposite the Soviet gress said it learned that 10 clear.
The President's request no ly transferred the funds to Embassy in Washington. He more Jewish families in
According to the absorp- and that what they regard as
sooner reached Congress the Jewish Agency with Max did so at the urgings of Sen. Moscow have received exit tion ministry, some 50 re- the 'aesthetic vulgarity' of
when Sen. Henry M. Jackson M. Fisher of Detroit, chair- Henry M. Jackson (D.Wash.) visas without having to pay quests a month are filed by Israel is totally without im-
(D. Wash.) introduced the man of that agency's board and physicians who exam- the education tax.
Russian Jews seeking to portance in comparison to the
legislative measure bearing of governors, signing an ined him.
Winding up a five-day leave Israel. Another appar- on-going miracle, the re-birth
his name which would deny agreement that the organiza- Moscow Scientists Appeal
state visit to Sweden, Soviet ently less official estimate, and re-generation of Israel."
Ms. Ozick was addressing
most-favored nation status tion would use the funds as to U.S. Nobel Laureates
Premier Alexei N. Kosygin reported by Maariv, put the
to any country which denies contracted with the U.S. to Join Fight for Rights
said the education tax was number of Russian immi- some 35 American "alumni"
its citizens the right to emi- government.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Three Soviet business only, not that grants leaving Israel at 1,200 of the AJCongress' annual
American-Israel dialogue.
yearly.
grate and which imposes
The $31,000,000 will be Moscow scientists have ap- of other nations.
Marie Syrkin, editor of the
more than nominal emigra- drawn from the $50,000,000 pealed to American Nobel
Marina Tiemkin, a 13-year-
Close to 50,000 Russian im-
tion fees. The Jackson mea- appropriated by the U.S. Prize Laureates in Science old girl forcibly separated migrants arrived in Israel in Herzl Press said the develop-
sure is obviously aimed at Congress for resettlement of to help them in halting the from her father, Alexander the last two years, 16,000 in ment of a sharpened sense
the Soviet Union and the ex- Soviet refugees of whatever harassment of scientists in Tiemkin, several weeks ago, 1971, and 32,000 last year. of Jewish identity and the
orbitant diploma tax it levies racial or religious back- the Soviet Union, which pre- has been found in a Soviet The same rate of Soviet aliya provision of an alternative to
on citizens seeking to emi- ground or to whatever coun- vents them from choosing youth pioneer camp in south- has been maintained during assimilation, discrimination
and persecution were the ma-
grate, virtually all of whom try will receive them.
their own place of residence ern Russia where she is re- the first quarter of 1973.
jor effects on American Jews
are Jews.
and
work.
portedly undergoing "inten-
Aharon Amit, director of of the first 25 years of Jew-
Thus far, most of the refu-
The appeal was contained sive indoctrination," it was absorption services for the ish
The Jackson Amendment is gees have gone to Israel.
existence.
supported by 76 senators. An However, $500,000 has been in a letter forwarded to the learned from groups in con- Absorption Ministry conced-
"Reduced to its essence,
Nobel
Laureates
by
the
identical measure introduced made available to other vol-
tact with Jewish sources in ed in the Maariv story that that is what Israel is all about
in the house by Reps. Wil- untary organizations to help Academic Committee on So- the Soviet Union.
the number of Russian immi- and what its brief existence
The sources said Alexander grants planning to leave Is- has meant to American Jew-
bur Mills (D. Ark.) and Char- refugees resettle in countries viet Jewry.
The three who signed the Tiemkin was permitted to rael is on the increase, large- ry," she said.
les ranik (D. Ohio) has the other than Israel.
letter are Moisey Giterman, visit his daughter for two ly because of an oversatur-
support of 275 representa-
Following the ceremonies, Aleksandr Voronel and Mark
tives.
hours recently and then ated economy where many
U. S. Savings Bonds now
Fisher hosted a luncheon at Azbel, all professors in Mos- ousted from the camp.
Russian skills are not sale- earn a 51/2 percent bonus in-
In his proposal, Mr. Nixon the International Club with cow. All have applied for
The father and daughter able.
terest, when held to maturity.
said he would notify Congress about 40 guests in attendance.
at least 90 days in advance Among them were Senators exit permits and been re-
fused.
of concluding an agreement Edmund S. M u s k i e (D.
and if neither the House nor Maine) and Jacob K. Javits
Nikolai Yavor, a Jewish
the Senate moved to block it, (R. N.Y.) and Reps. Gerald activist in Leningrad, was
it would go into effect. He Ford (R. Mich), the Republi- sentenced to a year's im-
made it clear that he wanted can minority leader; Jona- prisonment for allegedly
the authority to grant the than B. Bingham (D. N.Y.); "committing a public nuis-
Soviet Union most-favored- and John Buchanan (R. Ala). ance," according to Jewish
nation treatment which in-
sources in the USSR. Yavor
cludes tariff concessions, Israel Ambassador Simha had previously served a 10-
U.S. credits and investment Dinitz led a group of Is- day sentence for "hooli-
guarantees and thereby en- raeli officials attending the ganism."
sure repayment by the Soviet luncheon.
The sources said the or-
..._ government of its World War
Of the $31,000,000, $25,000,- iginal charge against him of
II Lend Lease debt.
000 will be for the care and being "drunk and disorder-
Referring directly to the maintenance of the immi ly" was dropped after it was
diploma tax imposed on So- grants and $500,000 to en- established that Yavor never
viet Jews, Mr. Nixon said, large the transit area near drank. A KGB (secret po-
"I recognize the deep con _ Vienna where most of the lice) agent who testified
Jewish emigrants ar- against him admitted that
cern which many in the Con-
gress have expressed over rive. The remainder is to be Yavor's alleged "public
the tax levied on Soviet citi- used for building a hospital nuisance" offense had been
zens wishing to emigrate to wing, housing, and for He committed in private. The
new countries. However, I brew language training and nature of the offense was not
do : e:t believe that a policy education of the refugees in disclosed.
;'lying most-favored-na- Israel.
Jewish sources reported
tion treatment to Soviet ex-
in addition, the State De- that the trial of Isaac Shkol-
ports is a proper or even an partment is making avail- nik, accused of spying for
effective way of dealing with able $2,000,000 to the Inter- Israel, is being conducted
this problem." Mr. Nixon national Committee for Eu- under maximum security
had on previous occasions ex- ropean Migration (ICEM) to conditions provided by a Red
pressed his wish to engage be used to help emigrants Army detachment in addition
in "quiet diplomacy" on the pay for their flights in El Al to police.
emigration issue. chartered p 1 a n e s from
Alexander Galperin, a Jew-
In London, David Markish, Vienna to Tel Aviv.
ish physicist who was sen-
34, the son of the late Rus- Sylva Zalmanson's Uncle
tenced at the Kishinev trial
sian-Yiddish poet Peretz on Hunger Strike at UN
Markish murdered in the UNITED NATIONS (JTA) of June 1971 to 2 1/2 years
Stalin purges of the 1950s, — Avraham Zalmanson — imprisonment for Zionist
Margaretta Moses, 82, is a concert pianist. However, it was Mrs. Moses' virtuosity at
said here that "active strug- the Israeli uncle of Sylva,
the easel which was displayed in the recent anual exhibit of amateur artists and
Interest
Guaranteed
gle" rather than "quiet dip- Vulf and Israel Zalmanson
sculptors conducted by the Zionist Organization of America and Tel Aviv Municipality
lomacy" was more effective and
Edward
Kuznetsov,
You can't lose on U.S. Sav-
in the ZOA House in Tel Aviv. Her work and that of 187 other Israelis drew thousands.
in aiding Jews in the Soviet Svlva's husband, the Soviet ings Bonds — their interest
Above, Dr. Sigfried Moses, Israel's former state controller, admires his wife's paintings.
Union.
Jewish prisoners of consci- is guaranteed to maturity.
* * *
ence — entered this week a And, if your bonds are lost,
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Prizes tion of amateur artists and by Mrs. Geula Rabinowitz,
State Dept. OKs $31 Million facsimile of a prison cell in
stolen,
damaged,
or
destroy-
were
awarded to a shipyard sculptors conducted by the wife of the mayor of Tel Aviv
for Resettlement of Soviet
front of the UN and began
ed, the U.S. Treasury will foreman, hotel receptionist, Zionist Organization of Amer- and patroness of the event,
Jewish Refugees in lsraael
a hunger strike in an effort
replace them free of charge. baby nurse and a housewife ica in cooperation with the and Shimshon Halfi of the
WASHINGTON (JTA) — to call attention to the plight U.S. Savings Bonds help pro- for their entries in the na- municipality of Tel Aviv. municipality's culture depart-
Prominent governmental fig- of his family — especially vide a worry-free future.
tionwide 12th annual exhibi-
The prizes were awarded ment.

Israel's 'Grandma Moses' Shows Art at ZOA House

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