Three Kishinev Jews, who were arrested for 15 days along with Jews from Moscow, when they demonstrated in Moscow shortly before Rosh Hashana, were given another 15-day sentence when they returned to their home town, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported today. The three are Mark Abramovitch, Mikhail Kupershtein and Yuri Shekhtman. (Continued from P. 1. Column 2)
He was elected President in 1963 and reelected in 1968. He paid several state visits during his two terms. including to Brazil, Nepal. Chile, Uruguay. Canada, and the U.S. which he visited as personal guest of President Johnson in 1966 and visited President Nixon in 1971. During his first term he represented Israel at the funerals of President Kennedy and Sir Winston Churchill. In 1964 he welcomed Pope Paul VI to Israel.
CLOSE FRIEND OF LUBAVITCHER REBBE
On each U.S. visit he called on the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menechem Mendel Schneerson. at his Brooklyn, NY headquarters and was criticized in some quarters for doing so on the grounds that this compromised his official position, but he rejected the critics and insisted on visiting his Rebbe. Each Nineteenth of Kislev (the anniversary of the Habad Movement’s founder’s release from the Czarist jail) Shazar would head the celebrants at Kefar Habad near Ramle, the Lubavitch center in Israel.
ENORMOUS LITERARY OUTPUT
His literary output was enormous, with by no means all of it yet published. His first recorded effort was a magazine he edited at the age of 10. He was at home in Yiddish publicism as well as Hebrew prose and poetry. His main field of research was Shabbateanism–the study of the Shabbetai Zvi and subsequent messianic movements which swept European Jewry in the 17th and 18th centuries. His studies here won him acclaim as a scholar and innovator.
He was also one of the first to introduce Bible criticism to the Hebrew-reading public with his “A History of Biblical Criticism” (1925) in collaboration with Max Soloveitchik, He also wrote on Socialist philosophy, and his book of biographical vignettes. “Morning Stars” (1967), is full of first-hand accounts of the early giants of the Socialist-Zionist movement, His writings also included “On the Ruins of the House of Frank” (1923). a study of the Frankist movement; “The Light of Personalities” (two volumes, 1955); and several translations of Hebrew poetry into Yiddish.
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