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Word: psalmbook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...psalmbook kept him company. During the nine years he spent in Soviet prisons and work camps, most of his other possessions were taken from him. But he clung to a miniature copy of the Book of Psalms that his wife Avital had sent from Israel. In fact, he once spent 130 days in solitary confinement because he refused to allow the authorities to confiscate the book. Early last week his Soviet guards tried again to seize it. In desperate fury, the prisoner defied his captors by throwing himself into the snow. "I said I would not leave without the Psalms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West This Year in Jerusalem | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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