He was appointed to a professorship at the Moscow Institute of Automobile and Road Building in 1971. At the same time. he became a member of the Moscow Mathematical Society and a member of the editorial board of the Society for Industry and Mathematics [SIAM]. of Philadelphia. In 1976. loffee applied to emigrate to Israel. He was immediately demoted from his professorship. becoming a researcher at the same institute. Furthermore. hes been offered a number of temporary teaching posts at universities in Europe and the United States (including one in Georgia). but the Soviets have declared hes irreplaceable and necessary to the teaching process. The Soviet Union wont allow him to accept any post outside of his country. The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs initially told Ioffee that his emigration case wouldnt be considered until 1982. But in 1978. he said that the refusal period for Ioffee could last indefinitely. Also. since applying to emigrate. Ioffees mail has been tampered with and his telephone was disconnected for a full year. Ioffee used to attend scientific seminars sponsored by the prominent Soviet Jew Viktor Brailovsky.
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