Seven Kiev Jews are staging a strike to mark the first anniversary of the arrest and trial of Aleksandr Feldman, a Jewish engineer, now serving a three-and-a-half year sentence for hooliganism, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported. The demonstrators are Esther and Yuli Tartakovsky, Aleksandr Tsatskis, Kim Friedman, Ilya Zlobinsky, Mikhail Mager and Vladimir Kislik.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.