After teaching himself Hebrew. he began studying classical Hebrew and Aramaic texts in the original. He has translated into Russian five books by the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. Today. Dr. Dashevsky faces a challenge of a different nature. He is struggling to bring his wife and three small children to Israel. His three older children wait for him there. Dr. Dashevsky first applied for a visa to Israel in 1976 after his oldest daughter finished at the university. At that time. he lost his position of 16 years at the Institute for Terrestrial Magnetism. In 1979 his application was denied for "security" reasons.