Irina. first applied for permission to leave the U.S.S.R. in 1972. They were refused permission the next year. and Viktor was dismissed from his position at Moscow University. Viktor then joined an informal scientific seminar for unemployed Jewish scientists waiting to emigrate. From 1978 until his arrest 2 months ago. Viktor and Irina hosted these seminars in their apartment. In 1976. the authorities granted him a visa. however. his wife and children were denied permission. Unwilling to leave his family. Brailovsky continued his activities in the Jewish emigration movement. He edited the samizdatunofficialjournal. Jews in the U.S.S.R. until its publication was stopped in 1979.
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