Evgeny Aisenberg, Kharkov’s only Hebrew teacher, was arrested on March 19, and charged with allegedly “defaming the Soviet state and social system,” the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported. A former engineer, he has actively sought repatriation to Israel since the late 1970’s. He is the 10th unofficial Hebrew teacher to be arrested in the Soviet Union since July, in a campaign the State Department called a “major, sustained crackdown on Hebrew teachers and other Jewish cultural activists.”
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