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1983 Was Dismal for Soviet Jewry

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• The denial of exit visas
to all but a handful of Jews
and strong efforts to dis-
courage and inhibit Jews
from applying to emigrate."
• "Harsh
measures
against Jews seeking to ex-
press their cultural and
religious heritage."
• "An alarming hate

Class Essence of Zionism,'
which was favorably re-
viewed in the Soviet press.
Korneyev acknowledged,
for the first time, an ideolog-
ical debt to a Czarist anti-
Semite who claimed that
Zionist agents provoked
pogroms in order to increase
Jewish emigration to what
was then called Palestine,
the implication being that
today's 'Zionist agents' are
conducting themselves in a
similar manner."

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The Ukrainian satirical magazine Peretz recently
published this "cartoon," showing a black-clad,
hook-nosed person labeled "Zionism" showing Israeli
soldiers plans for Auschwitz, Maidenek and Buchen-
wald. The cartoon was captioned, "Begin to build
camps (for the Arabs) on the tried and true model."
campaign against Jews Soviet agitation."
using Zionism as the osten-
"The most disturbing as-
sible target and portraying pect of Andropov's Jewish
Jews as potential traitors to policy," the report said,
the Soviet motherland."
"concerns the call in an 'ap-
• "Intensified efforts to peal' issued by the Anti-
reduce and eliminate con- Zionist Committee for a
tacts between Soviet Jews massive propaganda effort
and Jews living abroad."
for the 'political unmasking
For the first time, ac- of Zionism.' " The report
cording to the report, the added:
Soviet press described as
"Judaism is seen as the
"subversive" and anti-
source of 'Zionist evil'; the
thetical to Soviet law the
Torah and Talmud are pre-
private and unofficial sented as works preaching
teaching of Jewish his-
racism, hatred and violence.
tory and Hebrew. The The committee's June 6
USSR drive against the press conference signaled a
teaching of Hebrew cul-
heightened onslaught of the
minated in the trial of media offensive.
Iosif Begun, a former
"In a particularly vicious
mathematician who be-
attack (committee) chair-
came a self-taught but man Dragunsky labeled
unlicensed Hebrew Zionism a 'man-hating
teacher in Moscow. Be-
ideology' based on 'the ideas
gun, who first applied to and methods of Hitler.' "
emigrate to Israel in 1971, The report continued:
was sentenced to a
"Much of the propaganda
maximum prison term of campaign is drawn from a
seven years in a labor
newly-published book by
camp and five years of Lev Korneyev entitled 'The
internal exile for "anti-

Korneyev was recently
denounced by Dr. Ivan
Martinov, a non-Jewish
academic who said he
would give up his docto-
rate because the same
status was held by Kor-
neyev. The Student
Struggle for Soviet Jewry
reports that Martinov
and his Jewish col-
laborator have now been
threatened by the KGB
and have been the sub-
ject of a barrage of letters
and newspaper criticism.

At one point, Martinov
and his collaborator were
told to apply to emigrate,
the SSSJ reported, but the
two believe to do so now
would be a bureaucratic
trap designed to get them
fired from their jobs and
jailed for hooliganism.
The SSSJ said Dr. Mar-
tinov was confined to a men-
tal hospital four years ago
because he spoke out on
other issues.
Meanwhile, the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress is con-
ducting a national cam-
paign to send birthday
greetings to Anatoly
Shcharansky, now in his
seventh year in prison.
Shcharansky will be 36 on
Jan. 20.
As part of the campaign,
more than 80 Congressmen
have signed a petition ask-
ing the Soviets to release
Shcharansky.

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A banner signed in December at a Soviet Jewry
conference in Detroit, reading "Teaching Hebrew Is
No Crime!," was displayed at the Soviet Union's
United Nations Mission last month by Soviet immig-
rants to the United States. Glenn Richter of the Stu-
dent Struggle for Soviet Jewry took the banner with
Detroiters' signatures back to New York.

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chairman Evelyn Sondheim 1984, 1.5 percent in 1985
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20,000 tourists to travel to
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The first farmer was the
While in Israel last first man, and all historic
month, Mrs. Sondheim said nobility rests on possession
the U.S. women's Zionist and use of land.
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