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FRIDAY. JULY 10. 1987
Evgenia, Nachman and Vili Palanker
MARTHA A. CHURCHILL
Special to The Jewish News
It's tough being a Jewish
refusenik in Soviet Armenia.
Far from Russia, Armenian
Jews are even more isolated
than their counterparts in
Moscow or Leningrad.
I visited a Jewish family in
Yerevan recently during a
trip to the USSR. Viii and
Evgenia Palanker invited me
to their apartment so we
could talk freely about the
plight of Soviet Jews, and
especially the plight of the
Palanker family living in the
capital of Soviet Armenia.
I was on a tour of the
Caucusus with a group of
American attorneys. We were
seeing the usual tourist
sights in Moscow, Tbilisi,
Yerevan, Baku and Len-
ingrad. Along the way, we
met with lawyers and judges
to ask questions about the
Soviet legal system. And, all
along the way, I was heading
off from the rest of the group
to meet with Jewish
refuseniks.
To arrange my meeting
with the Palankers, I found a
public telephone far from my
hotel. I knew the hotel phones
were bugged. I spoke to Vili
in Russian at first, but to my
relief, he soon turned the con-
versation around to English.
Luckily, his English was
superior to my poor blend of
Russian and Hebrew.
We agreed to meet at the
Lenin statue in the main
square of Yerevan. I told Vili
he would know me by my pur-
ple bag and blue shirt.
Waiting for Vili at the
statue was excrutiating:The
place was crawling with
Martha A. Churchill is a Royal
Oak attorney and a member of
Temple Beth El and Troy Jewish
Congregation.
police, as is most of the Soviet
Union. I tried to look non-
chalant. Finally a man ap-
proached me and asked, "Are
you looking for Palanker?"
We took a bus to a part of
town I had not seen on the
bus tour that day. We walked
through a courtyard where
children played in the last few
moments of daylight. Up the
endless stairs. Finally I knew
we had reached the Palanker
flat when I spotted an Israeli
flag sticker on the door.
Inside, Vili's wife Evgenia
had tea and cookies waiting.
I told them my name, for the
first time. I had not divulged
my name on the phone, since,
of course, their phone was
bugged.
If officials in Moscow deny
a family their exit papers, the
family can demonstrate or
picket under the watchful eye
of the western media. But a
family in Yerevan can
demonstrate as much as they
like, all for nothing, since
there are no foreign
journalists.
Keeping kosher is a tremen-
dous struggle for Jews of the
Soviet Union, but it is
especially difficult in the
Caucusus. The USSR is a
meat-and-potatoes country.
Most of that meat is Polish
ham. Kosher sausage, kosher
cheese, even peanut butter,
are rare delicacies for Jews in
southern USSR.
The Palankers have been
trying to leave the Soviet
Union for years. Evgenia quit
her job as a mathematician in
1971 because she supposedly
had access to state `secrets"
and would thus be forbidden
to leave the country. Even
now, the government uses her
old job as an excuse to deny
her permission to leave. And
due to the family's outspoken-
ness, the government also
punishes both the Palankers'