Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990096362

The true details are that Virshuvsky. who was visiting inlaws in Kiev. was detained by the KGB as he rode on a bus. studying from two Hebrew books which he had borrowed from the Kiev Synagogue. Apparently. the KGB had managed to get an official of the Synagogue to corroborate that Virshuvsky had "stolen" the holy books from the unused library dating back to czarist times. (No Jewish Bible has been published in Russia since before the 1917 communist revolution.) Virshuvsky. his wife. and infant child (born while he awaited trial in prison) need your help. Pleasel Let us try to help Iosef Berenstein who applied for an exit visa in 1979. Since that time he has been arrested. charged with malicious hooliganism. and sentenced to prison where he was harassed. beaten. and partically blinded upon arrival! Mr.
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visa

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
T. GORTON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WA
Gender
M
Date
1985-10-07
Speech ID
990096362
Paragraph
#1
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