Felix Kamov-Kandel, the well-known Soviet Jewish screen writer, has received permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union with his family, the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry reported. Permission was granted four years after kamov-kandel applied for an exit permit. Since that time he has been cut off from the ordinary privileges of life. No date has yet been set for his departure, the Conference said.
Kamov-kandel is an acclaimed play writer and scriptwriter, as well as creator of an internationally renowned cartoon. After requesting an exit permit, Soviet authorities did not allow his work to be credited to him. In addition, he was isolated from his associates in the film industry and from his literary colleagues in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.
During his four year waiting period, Kamov-Kandel held two long hunger strikes, protesting refusal of permission to emigrate, and of his treatment after he had filed for an exit permit. He was editor of the “Samizdat” publication, “Tarbut.”
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