They are harassed. expelled from school. stripped of their standing in society. and subject to arbitrary arrest. confiscation of personal property. and defamatory attacks against their heritage. Who are these Soviet criminals? They are ordinary men and women. whose only crime is their active struggle to secure che right to emigrate to Israel or to live as Jews without discrimination in the U.S.S.R. They are Yakov Levin. a Hebrew teacher from Odessa who was sentenced to 3 years of hard labor for allegedly circulating false materials which defamed the Soviet state. The inciteful documenta copy of Leon Uris novel. "Exodus." They are Lev Shapiro who. with his wife. Leah. and their two young children. have been denied emigration to Israel since 1977. Lev. educated as an electrical engineer. has worked for the last 8 years as an electrician and Leah has been unable to find work. They are Nadezhda Fradkova. a Leningrad activist sentenced to 2 years in prison on the charge of parasitism and confined to a psychiatric hospital ever since.
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