Iosif Begun. Yurly Tarnopolskiy. Aleksandr Yakir. and other prominent Jewish scholars and intellectuals who have been imprisoned are well known. and they have been the subject of Senate resolutions or letters which I have enthusiastically cosponsored or cosigned. calling on Soviet authorities to grant their release and their emigration. But. Mr. President. these individuals are simply the visible symbolsthe tip of the icebergof a pervasive Soviet campaign that denies Jews the right to worship. emigrate. and to sustain their cultural identity. T)uring the past 6 months. 11 Hebrew teachers and Jewish cultural activists were arrested and 4 sentenced to labor camps for engaging in antiSoviet agitation. slander. and propaganda. In fact. they were simply encouraging identification with ones religious heritage.
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