Social and Cultural Rights. the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. and even by the Soviet constitution. Americans have been forced to listen to the outrageous assertion that Jews enjoy full rights and privileges in the Soviet Union. We have heard the ridiculous argument that all Jews who wish to emigrate have already done so. Such absurd statements only highlight the fact that we are witnessing an official Soviet campaign to stamp out a Jewish cultural revival in the Soviet Union. Human rights abuses in the U.S.S.R. take other forms besides the virtual halt of emigration. the imprisonment of refusniks. and the attempt to eliminate Jewish culture. Some Soviet Jews must endure constant surveillance and harassment. Yakov Gorodetsky is a former mathematics teacher from Leningrad who has been teaching Hebrew since he was fired for having applied to emigrate in 1979. He has been at the forefront of the campaign to obtain the rights guaranteed by Soviet and international law. Mr.
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