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Newly unemployed, Begun received another warning from the K.G.B. In an effort to avoid arrest, he declared as his work and means of income the Hebrew lessons he had been teaching. (Soviet law allows citizens to earn money through private instruction as long as they register the lessons with the appropriate revenue office for tax purposes...
...revenue office administrator replied with a letter explaining why the Hebrew lessons could not be registered: the language was not approved by the ministry of education, and furthermore, Begun was not licensed to teach it. "If there were a need for the language to be taught," the letter continued, "it would be taught. Since it isn't taught, there is no need." Begun, the state decided, was not engaged in "socially useful work...
After doing his own research, Begun discovered that Hebrew was, in fact, approved by the ministry of education, since it was taught in a classical language program (from which Jews were excluded) at three universities Furthermore, according to Soviet law people who taught anything privately required no license whatsoever. But this research failed to impress the K.G.B. Began was arrested, tried, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in Magadan, a Siberian town not far from Alaska. Now, twelve years after he applied to emigrate, he lives in a small town near Moscow and earns his living shovelling coal, a skill...
...only the Jews who wish to emigrate who are harrassed Many Soviet Jews recount incidents of K G B agents not only raiding secret Hebrew classes, threatening the teachers with imprisonment and interrogating children of kindergarten age. In October, on the eve of the Rosh Hashannah. Soviet police forcibly disperse the thousands of Jews who had gathered outside the synagogue on Archipove street to sing and dance. In the last year there has been a dramatic increase in the number of anti-Semitic books and articles published and therefore sanctioned by the government. Universities have begun to give separate...
Kiely said he expects to remain in China for seven or eight months and then hopes to travel to Israel to teach for two months at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...