Box Folder 26 10 Pincus, Louis. 1963-1971
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MS-763: Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman Collection, 1930-2004. Series H: United Jewish Appeal, 1945-1995. Subseries 2: Correspondence, 1947-1982. Box Folder 26 10 Pincus, Louis. 1963-1971. For more information on this collection, please see the finding aid on the American Jewish Archives website. 3101 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 513.487.3000 AmericanJewishArchives.org ....-1•TANT llXllfCUTIV'S D IAIDCTOR 1"71SS PltACHTA£E RO-'D• N . £. ATi..ANTA. GEORGIA 80309 . -THE .ATLANTA Atlanta, Ga. 30302, Sunday, NoveD)her 7, 1971 . 270· Pages - 16 Sections **** P.O. Box 4689 \ - ~ . _:.;.... .•-:..,..-- ~· .....,.,,. .~ .. - . ' .. .. ··- _,,,_._. --------------- . .. .. .. 'r"-• • • .. ~ . .. , .. : · ------:;· ~ :. ,·.-: .. ·-.!-: · ~ ·:~HILD UKRAINIAN NEVER SAW WAITS .. f_ • • .. ... - • •·. -- Fo tf/J ! er' s ·pffea May Free Man in Russia· By REG ~fCRPHY Fowler was interested in the case, and promised before He ls a unh•ersity-trained biologist, but he was reqwred to C~ · l)r of The At/ant.a Con•titut lo" lea\'ing for Russia as a part of the American Council of work as a carpenter in the Ukraine. Because he desired to Ru.ssia may al!O\\' Yakov Gluzman to leave the Ukraine Young Political Leaders lo help. He took along a copy of the move to Israel, he was not allowed to pursue his professional ~ause of the inlen•ention lhis past week of Atlanta Alder Oct. 18 edition of The Atlanta C-Onstitution which told of Mrs. career. man Wyche Fowler. Gluzman's errorts, and used the newspaper in making his His wife was allowed to move in September 1969, along If Gluzman does gain permission to emigrate, it will be plea. with her parents and sisters. They had sul>mitted applications t.":e end of a long and emotionally harrowing errort by his wife He first asked Komsomol (C-Ommu:iist Youth League) for 15 years. She and Yak:>v had been married a month, and to get him freed to join her and their 2-year-01d son. leaders in Kiev for help in freeing Gluzman. Three days la!er he was not allowed to accompany her. F:n:ier said by telephone from :ifoscow Saturday that he he was taken to the Ukrainian Presidium to make the ease for After she ga\'C birth to a son she sent an affidavit request• MS allowed to make a prh-ale request to the Supreme Soviet Gluzman. ing that her husband be allowed to emigrate. o! the t.l\rainian Presidium for Gluzman's release. Fowler warned that there still is negotiating to do. But he "We thought that a father to a child and a husband to his "The request has been made and I'm very optimistic," said he is "very optimistic" about the prospects. wife would be allowed to go without delay,'' :'itrs. Gluzman Fo~le r said. " If he is released, it will be an exlraordinl\ry act said. "Immediately after the birth of my son, nan, I sent an o~ humanitarianism." If Gluzman Is aUowed to ~eave, he will join what is re- affidavir to my hui::band. We wailed for half a year for an an- ported to be a growing number of Jews who have been granted swer, and in August of this year my husb:md receh·ed a re- mE F.c:\.\L PUASE of the release effort began on Oct. 17 permission lo leave Russia in recent weeks. News agencies re- rusal of his request to reunite with his family in Israel.''. In At lanta. Prerty. dark~yed Rita Gluzman, 23, came from Is- ~port thaL some urban professional people have been granted In her talk in Atlanta. Mrs. Gluzman said. "l belie,·e that re.el to plead tearfully wirb Jewish leaders in Atlanta to "help exit visas. · your intervention before the So\•iet authorities will help to gh·e us get ·Papa' back." In those dispatches from Moscow, Western diplomats said my child his fath er and to give me back my husband. E\·ery Ab:>u l 125 delegates to :he Atlanta J ewish Weliare Federa- the pressure of world public opinion apparently forced the So- mother and wife will understand me and will be able to imag· tifJ!l's wdership Forum afreed to try to help bring public vlcls to ease thclr restriction on emigration. About 7,500 Jews ine my terrible horror of the future. Even• father thnt ca- o;>:Oion to bear against the Russian emigration policy which have been reported leaving in the past year. resses his son's head will be able to imagine the suffering of C<id left her stranded in ~rael with the child her husband . · · my husband, who cannot look at his child." . ~ ~~$~4 -. ..... ,.., ·;-*D~.~~- r. · =-a.• .• 12 ~: ., ~~ SAT~~J~.: .. Gl~~~ .~a~ ~o t ~een:~~~~~;e,A~_!o:'2~~!,.~:~.... t~~t~~~~N~~:.f· • •!. ~ .. .. ~ , • ...J FOWLER PLEA VvORKS Soviet Jewish Pair Re ited · Israel By Jlt,;GII ~ATIO~S a tour of Russia as part of a Beneath tho-se bearskin group of young government of ficials. hats, Atlanta A I d e rm a n A reporter, interviewing the W\'cne Fowler Jr. has de alderman before his depar ci.icd, the Russians may have ture. produced a clipping tell some r\.-eling .after S:J. ing of :\!rs. Gluzman's appear Fowler jubilanHy reported ance before .the welfare feder Wednesday Urat Yakov Gluz ation. and su{:gestcd that Fow man, the Russian Jew whom ler might try to obtain Glutz Soviet officials had refused man's release while in Russia. pcnnisSion to emigca.lc to re Fowler assumed :\trs. Gluz- join his family, bas gone to Is man was from Atlanta. • rael. The Russians' ac:ion appar L.\TER, "bile touring the Sorie: 1.J',;.raine, he became ac enlly was ~en as a CirccL re sult of intervention by the quainted with a Ukrainian of youtilful Atlanta city oWcial. ficial, and :i.t an appropriate moment Fowler asked for his Mike Gettinger, director of assistance in the Gluzman the American Jewish Welfare case. Federation here, said Gluz Surprisingly. the officials man anwed in Vienna on elicited the o[ three mem :\ov. 20. and he and his wife help bers of ~e supreme Soviet of Rita have now settled in :'\e .the l.ilcrainc, who ultimately t.anya, Israel, wiih her par told Fowler that Gluzman ents. would be released. WITH TllE COUPLE is They laid down two condi their year-0ld son, whom Gluz tions: Fowler was not to an m:in had never seen before. nounce the ~on while he \..-as still in Russia, and the )lrs. G.uzman had left the names or the officials involved Soviet Union before the birth were not to be diScloscd. of her son with the under ~1eanwhile, back in the standing 4.hat her husbnnd United States, Mrs. Gluzman would be permitted to follow was continuing her efforts to · her Jaler. Difficulties devel arouse reacUon among world oped, however, and her hus officials. She threatened a band was refused permlssion hunger stnkc in front of the to l~ve Russia. t;nited t\ :i ti o n s, which Fowler became invoh•ed in prompted U.S. Ambassador to the case by accident. !he United Nations. Ge-0rge Bush to demand action from ~Irs. Gluzman. as part or a the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. personal camp.aign to arouse Fo~·ler hurriedly explained sympathy for the plight of the to embassy officials how the family. came to Atlanta in Oc sitmilion stood. and Mrs. Gluz tober •o speak to tile Je\vish man was persuaded to sus Welfare Federation. pe..1d her efforts until the Rus A few days U1ere:iftcr, Fow sian officia!s had an opponu- I ler was scheduled to leave for nity io act on their promise. I I I -· _.._.,. "" J t · · • e ""'..,. ....,..9 ~ New 9hapter. .iri ·israel: ::· . '• ·1'.·:_111t11ix ·of Sov.iet Jews . ~ . -"... .. :. :·.,; :.-:..J.,:l ..\ .... , • ~-: '... .:... By PETER GROSE •··. ; . ~-~ 1 ' I ~. ~toT!ltl.:t•Y.t'n:>el ." .",'!:°I a t JERUSALEM, June 5-Lui- Soviet Jews have come to ... ""ging hls d ouble bass and . Israel, accordin& to Premier eleclric guitar down the Golda Meir. ' ramp of an airliner. Avra- Though a me.re fraction of ham Band. a 22-year.old the hundreds of thousandJ f jau: musician from Soviet said to be seeklni pennis ~oldavia, !mm.lgrated to sion to com~. thU number .Jarael a few days ago. tor the first five months of ·, ' SO did Nathan Wallach, a 1971 is four times as large I chemist from Riga, and u the number in any full Boris Gafunov, a prize-win- year :previously. It is rapidly . nlng writer and translator approaching the record num , from Soviet GeorglL There be.r of American Jews-some ! are teachers and engineers, 9,500-who lmmign~ la.st ' merchants, technicians and year. ' · ·•. ; doctors on the special planes Caliber Is High arriving almost daily now, More slgnlflcant than the· i filled with :Tews from the numbers is the intellectual ·· Soviet Union. caliber of the new arrivals 3radually. the society 1 ot • Israel is absorbing a new from the Soviet Union: pro fWionai men and women, flow of bnmigration, an ex- highly educated specialists odus that Israelis have • longed for over the years, and activists In politic.al but wblch they had little causes-the types of people who are already forming the , hope of actually seeing. nucleus of what could grow I Figure Put at 6,000 into a new Russian cuJtural ~ Potentially- though the community outside the Soviet authorities here do not pre- U~o• , • ~ : te.nd to know how long the Will this now last? Why, ' flowwm last-a new chapter are the Soviet authorities .