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PAGE 8 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE July 4, 1986
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After meeting this man it’s not
hard to understand why the Soviets
decided finaliy to let him go.
He is vocal, sharp, very funny,
impassioned. He is built like a slab,
but his solidness and strength seem
to be far more than physical. He is
outspoken, and, one might say,
critical to a fault; but that critical
ness appears to be entirely moti
vated by real love and concern for
Jewry, in the U.S.S.R. or wher
ever. One imagines that the Soviets
found him to be such a thorn in
their side that finally, it was easier
for them to let this one go than to
punish him further. One also imag
ines that finally, perhaps they also
ended up respecting him, just a
little.
Months after his release, Yakov
Gorodetsky is working single-
mindedly on behalf of the Jews still
oppressed in the Soviet Union, cal
ling for “a great campaign against
Soviet anti-Semitism,” directed at
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev,
and a policy of trading U.S. goods
and technology only in exchange
for the Soviets agreeing to emigra
tion based on the principle of repa
triation.
Yakov Gorodetsky was a math
ematics teacher, living in Lenin
grad, when he applied to emigrate
to Israel nearly eight years ago. He
was fired from his job for seeking
to emigrate. He began teaching
Hebrew to others, and came to the
forefront of the campaign for Soviet
Jews to obtain the rights guaran
teed them by Soviet and interna-
tional law.
He “was at the very hub of the
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Gorodetsky; “We must help all the Jews, whether they are good,
not-so-good, or even bad.”
refusnik community in Leningrad,”
according to West Coast Soviet
Jewry activist Judy Balint, who
visited Gorodetsky in Leningrad
last year before his release. “It was
through Yakov that we in the West
got our information about what
was going on, not only in Lenin
grad, but in the other Jewish com
munities in the Soviet Union,”
Balint said. “He had the strength
and the wherewithal to resist the
pressures that were put on him to
stop that kind of communication
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with the West.”
He was not imprisoned, nor
crippled by physical attacks, as, he
reports, is happening with increas
ing frequency these days to Soviet
refusnik leaders. But he was con
stantly harassed. He was repeat
edly interrogated by the KGB,
detained, confined to his house.
When he spoke out in support of
the Soviet historian Martinov (who
is now in a psychiatric hospital),
Gorodetsky was publically de
nounced in the Soviet press. Last
year he was ordered to report for
the draft, even though he had been
exempted due to poor eyesight.
But in January of this year, after
nearly eight years, Gorodetsky and
his family were allowed to emigrate
Gorodetsky was in the United
States in June, and in public talks,
interviews, and a presentation to
the American Jewish Press Asso-
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