That may sound hard, he
says, but Mr. Polterovich
believes his choices have
been simple and clear: To
support the Soviet govern-
ment or not. If not, he says,
then he became a dissident
by definition. If a dissident,
then his choice was equally
clear: was it as a Russian or
as a Jew? If as a Jew, then
he would be circumcised. He
would study Hebrew. He
would transplant himself to
Israel.
On the Polterovich family
tree, it seems, every twig
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cian: his wife, his father, his
mother — they are all math-
ematicians, and they have
all come with him to Israel.
Even his 18-year-old brother
is considering math for him-
self.
But if mathematics is im-
portant in his life, Mr.
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not everything. Most of all it
is for his five-year-old
daughter that he feels joy in
his new life. Israel will nur-
ture her, he says; he is happy
to have transplanted her to
its soil.
She may not become a
mathematician, he says, but
she will certainly be an Is-
raeli. And that is enough for
Aryeh Polterovich. The peo-
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