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--:lVI -~ 4~2/fl.A Question of Life" ,
SEGMENT A
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Fade in A :00 D SOUND: Music Full shots of Jews still in Russia
Dis. to B :05
:06 C SOUND FULL:. Rosenblum/D SOUND UNDER
ROSENBLUM::
Antisemitism, of course, has raised the Jewish con
sciousness in the Soviet Union. That and the very . .
vigorous anti-Israel campaign that was conducted uh,
beginning With the end of the 6-Day War. Uh, this for
many Jews was the watershed. And, it convinced them
that they could not live in the Soviet Union under thes~
conditions. Uh, and I would say the 6-Day War probab
. .1y uh among aU factors was the greatest in creating
the wave of immigration we see now. Althoughthe
Soviet Union in itself did much uh to create this desire
to leave.
cut to: W. S. -camp :44 C SOUND OUT/D SOUND FULL: Natl. SOF CHABAD
CHABAD:
l'his young man is 3 days out of the Soviet Union. He r
been in, he came to New York, was in New York for 2
hours and has been in Cleveland for 3 days.
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.. ADAm:
MEN donning This is Chabad, group of orthodox Jews whose belief in l tephilin & talas ium
Judaism is pure and untouched by the outside world.
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The Chabad, in this ceremony, are reaching out to
their newly arrived brethren from Soviet Russia••• to
teach them one of the basic tenets of Judaism which was
forbi<lden in .the Soviet Union. These men are donning
phylacteries, in Hebrew known as Tephillin. For most
of these Russian-Jews this ancient Jewish custom is
strange. However, like Jews before them they will
repeat the commandmants of the Lord saying
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"And thou shalt tell to thy son in that day,: It is becausf
of that which the Lord did for me, when I went out fron
Egypt, and it shall be to thee from a sign upon they
hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes; in order
that the Law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with
a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out from
Egypt, ••• from the house of slavery•. And it came to
pass."
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2:00 C SOUND OUT IE. T. -FUL L wrrH D UNDER C ONT'D
Dis. to A 2:06 FADE D sruND OUTIE. T. C ONT'D. UNDER sketch-Jew carrying house on back
2:07 C SOUND FULL: Adair/E.T. CONT'D. UNDER·
So many times in their 3000 year long history has the
Jew been in exile that it almost seems commonplace; __________ 1
Dis. to B 2:14 D SOUND IN UNDER LOWtCHANGE E.T. TO:. I Arrival of Russian family, airport
Dis. to A
Tumbalalik:
1out of the land of the Pharmhs; the Caesars; the inqui7
sition of Spain; and few escaped the Holocaust that wipe
out 6 million of their people. And now, a new exodu~
away from a land that they loved dominated by Soviet
antisemitism.
i I I lIn the last 6 to 7 years ove r 90 ,000 Jews have left th,
. USSR for their homeland, Israel. Of the 90,000 ab out
4000 have come to the United States. And, presently
.next to New York City, Cleveland is one of the princi
pal re-settlement cities for about 200 Russian Jews.
It was with great risk, and much personal agony and
2:5'3 frustration that these Jews left/ the Soviet Union. \Vh
did they chose to leave? Well, as one elt;ierly
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immigrant who brought her family to America stated:
"It was a choice between freedom or oppression--It wa:
The Question of Life."
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Fade up on A· 3:16 FADE IN D SOUND UNDER: Mmic Newspape r Stills I
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3:18 C SOUND FULL/D UNDER: Music
ROSENBLUM:
. ' - Anti-semitism is a carry-over, definitely a carryover
from Czarist times. It's flavor, it's content uh••• is
I would say, in.all ways, uh••• identical and the Sovietf
uh have irwented few, if any, new Anti-semitic tricks.
---in that repsect. In fact they've dredged up some of
the old Czarist qocurnents "The Protocals of the Elders
of Zion" and so on and brushed them off and are using
them again.
3:47 C CONT'D.: A.lJair/D CONT'S. UNDER MUSIC
ADAIR:
These headlines and nhotOQ"ranhs arp. fron; ~ Clp.vp.land l
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B&W pix, Jews Ellis Island
Dis. to B 4:09
Jewish newspaper from the turn of the century. The!
articles tell of. brutalities, massacres, organized
'pogroms' against the Jewish populace of White Russia
The only alternative for a great number of Jews was t
abandon everything they had and flee. And, most cam
to the United States.
CHANGE D SOUND: Music/HEAVIER PC. stills of 1917 revolution
For those Jews who remained in RUSSia, the 1917 Bol·
shevik Revolution was looked on as something of a
blessing. Jews began to assimilate into tlie new Sovii
social order, and for a brief period, it worked.
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Dis. to A B&W still-curmnt 'Soviet leaders
Then as if a pall, or cutrain was dropped over all of
Russia, this man, Joseph V. Stalin, changed everythin
Stalin found it expedient to summarily round up Jewish
leaders, artists, politicians in massive arrests. Man~
were sent to concentration camps--many were mur
dered. And, the period known as the Black Years of
4:50 Soviet Jewry was ushered in. /
And, today a Soviet government, intent on ~e serving
'detent' with the West, vigorously denies ,any charges
M - 412/Seg.A Page 6 • . of anti-semitiesm--but it exists, and is very real.
Dis. to B 5:01 CHANGE D SOUND UNDER: to sync. #3 Dr. Roseriblilill on Cam.
One of the first to recognize the problem of Soviet Je~~ was a Clevelander, Dr. Louis Rosenblum who is
founder and chairman of the Cleveland Council on I ,f Soviet Anti-semitism.
Dr. Rosenblum, who just returned from a fact-finding t
5:15 D SOUND OUT/C CONT'S FULL
ltrip to Russia this past May, has personally met With
hundreds of Jews now actively seeking to leave the
Soviet Union--there situation he says is grim•••..•
5 :25 C CONT'S FULL: Rosenblum-
cut to still shots of T __.!_'L -.'L.!'1..:J ___ .!_ TTCfc."-n
ROSENBLUM:
To the man in the street, the Jewish man in the street
anti-semitism is ever-present. Uh, it is commonfor
him to be accosted in t he street or on a trolley-bus
uh, by a drunk or by a Soviet citizen of any kind ••• uh,
and slandered ••• called a dirty Jew. Uh, said perhaps·
to him that uh••• "it's too bad that the Nazi's didn't
fniish you all off"••• things of this sort. A Jewish ch Hd
growing up in the Soviet Union uh••• has .~o weather all
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cut to Dr. Rosenblum on cam.
stills of RUSSian Jews 6:56
of the Anti-semitism, the overt, crude "anti-semitism t'
his parents would have thrust upon them. Uh••• he hear.
this in the schools, both from the students and the
teachers. There is a very strong anti-Israel uh curren
running throughout the eduction system" and uh its a vet;
short jump from anti-Israel to anti-Jewish in the Soviet
system. The study of Judaism, Jewish Religion, Jewi~
culture is essentially prescribed inthe Soviet Union.
Uh, the opportunity for study is not there, the necessal
items that a student would require such as books and
teaching aides are completely absent. "Uh, and the
Soviet government fa s refused to make them available.
D SOUND IN UNDER: Music
Uh the average Soviet citizen whether he be Jew of nonJ
Jew would like more freedom for himself, would like l more of the better things in life--a higher standard of
liVing. For the Jew who is suffering under additional
disabilities of anti-semitism, uh, this desire for free
dom is even more desperate.
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SEGMENT B
Fade in A :00 D SOUND UNDER: WIT Pres. J.F.S. Meeting 'Jewish family services
:01 C SOUND FULL: AdairjD CONT'S. UNDER
.' i ADAm: I For the Russian Jew settling inthe United States here ~.
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And", 4n ~.'some obvious cultural shocks to over corne. IJ,I. .
Cleveland, to help soften that shock somewhat is the t Jewish Family Services Association, a family counsel-·f
ing and community service agency funded primarily by I
the Jewish Community Federation and UnitedTorch i t!
. t Services. Among a host of other things JFS provides .
i health care, education and vocational couns~1ing, traml
• portation, housing, or an introduction ,
Dis. to B :30 CHANGE D SOUND TO SUPERMARKET I'-s-up~e~r-m~a~r~k-e~t~VV~J~Ki~S~in-e-r~s-------------------------_____________________________ 1
to an American supermarket-----I
For new immigrants such as the Michael Kasiners frorr!
Kiev, life will not be easy their first few m enths in
America. For them the luxuries of America; the
abundancy of foods; the custom and the language are a]
mind boggling, but to the many who have left the USSR.
it's a small price to pay for freedom.
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:53 C SOUND OUTjD SOONDFULL: Supermarket
:57 D SOUND CHANGE TO MUSIC: Under L€tter
:59 C SOUND FULL: Gutman "
DR. GUTMAN: I Dear My Family, already 2 years that I didn't have ISuper-A over B 1:09 anything from you , I don't lmow what I should think. / e·
still pix over letter
Dis. full to A still pix .
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I sent many letters and now I am in hospital and I.havt
Pilagra. If you cansend me please the food and tabac •
everything what I had was stolen by criminal people. I My address is number 219 over 5, this is part of Gulag.i
For help I am very appreciated••• and for rest of . my
life./
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Dr. Gutman on cam. They sent him to concentration camp and he died over
there .••and I never saw my father again.
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cut to Dr. Gutman 2:14 D SOUND UNDER/C SOUND FU LL: Adair on roudns
ADAm:
After losing her father to a Soviet concenlration camp
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Dis. to B 2:47 Dr. Gutman's mother & sister
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DiS. to A 3:00
in 1942, Dr. Sulamita Gutman, then a young girl. of 13,
began her long dream of emmigrating to the United
States. It culminated in 1968 while visiting the United
States, she, along with her 7 year old ron, had legal·
ly defected. She strove to retain her profession as a
physician in America, md was successful. Currently
she's doing her residency in internal medicine at Moun
Sinai Hospital in Cleveland. After obtaining the assis
tance of.a U. S.~Congress'inan,
CHANGE D SOUND UNDER: Pres. Home
iDr. Gutman was recently reunited with her mother and
sister afte r 6 long years.
C SOUND CONT'S. = Dr. Gutman/D CONT's UNDER
DR. GUTMAN:
Ub, after my father died, I realized the Soviet uh life:
is not uh the life what, they told you in the paper in
D SOUND OUT Still photos
Soviet literature, but I was tha1part of Russian people.
I uh didn't think about my Jewish religion and uh I feel .
Dis. to B 3:17 like I am average Russian peoplej who likes Russian Dr. Gutman on cam.
culture, who likes Russian uh people, / that's all.
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Dis. to A
Then uh my mind was changed, because Russian govem
ment started to have in many fields, discrimination. Am
then uh I started to think this means. I am not a part of
Russian peo~, I am something else. Because in all
publication tney put it paragraph 5, the paragraph 5 mead
you're m. tionality, and nationality this, means Jewish. I
If they uh see this paragraph and you are Jw ish, you are'
not equal to other people. We don't know what is going
on in the paper tomorrow, they will put uh some anti
semitic uh, anti-semitic uh article or not, if they wlll pui
then rmgt away the population started, the other popula
tion started to be not friendly to us and it was two uh,
kind of pressure of us.
4:28 D SOUND IN UNDER: Music Mother &. stills
Dis. to B 4:34 My mother's very prominent woman. She was interestec;l'
in politics, she was criticized all articles which uh were .&.
_D_"i.....s_._t_o_A________4_:4_1___in_uh_t_he__! papers, and uh go to United States it is her
Dis. to B 4:45 idea.! And uh gradually it became uh my idea••• and it -~-------------------------~
Dis. to A 4 :50 was my dream/ for many many year, I realize this uh, --~------------------------~--~
Dis. to B 4:59 that I can have freedom only in America and when I! have
my son, I prefer for him only this uh tenure of life which
has American, people.
Dis. to A 5 :10 CHANGE D SOUND TO SYNC. #5 Dr. Gutman with patient
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. I feel that I am a part of Jews of all world now, I feel thi
and I uh think I feel that I am part of Jews in America aU
And uh this is great because before we were between uh, .
between uh 2 problems, we were not Russian, we were n Slow Dis. to B . 5 :30 Jew./ \ h:-o~l-::d-a-:-t-m--=-id::---p-o-=-in-:t---------'-;';" . . \
5:30 START SLOW X-FADE OF D SOUND TOE.T. UNDER I
And, the Soviet government forced us to be Jews. This
_E-.nd_D-.i-.s,:;..o_ful_l_t_o_B_____5_:3_6___i_s-"g"-r_e_a_t_a_ls_0.-IJ.z/ and now we feel that we are Jews of all
world.
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Slow Dis. to A 5:42 t
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t 5:52 C SOUND FULL: Adair/D SOUND UNDER & E. T. CONT'
UNDE1.
ADAm:
This is the first JeWish New Year that Nahman
Khutorianski, his wife Ludmilla, and son Gannadi Will t !
spend in the United States. For them, this fundamental
lesson in Judaism is extremely important. The practice .
of Judaism is extremely important. The practice of Ju
daism was the na jor reason Nahman Khutorians~i brough
his family to America from Leningrad 11 months ago• ..
Coming to the United States was a sanrifine for thp.
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Khuto}ianSki'S but they say, it was a decision,
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G4nnaili in classroom
they will never regret•••..•••
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KHUTORIANSKI: . ,
Coming to America he understood that it isn't a shame to I be a Jew and he won't uh, he won't hide, he couldn't hide
that he is a Jew as it was, in Russia.
(Russian) ••• One of the main reasons that he left RUSSia
that he wanted his son to be free and not to fee! himself a~
a Jew because uh in Russia,
I 7:00 D SOUND CONT's. UNDER: Classroom I
he wasn't sure that his son would be able to enter a kind,
any kind of a college because uh he was a Jew. And now
he, he's sure that after finishing, after graduating from
the High school he would be able to attend any college he
likes. I
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Although he was satisfied with uh his uh material kind of,
life/ he wasn't satisfied with the mora11ife and uh he ~~~--------------------------~
really suffered because of being a Jew, / so although he
was a head of a shop uh he was always/ expecting to be , discharged because now in Russia uh, the heads of uh all '
_D_is.-:.:.....-to__A______________7__:5_5___0_f_fi_c_e~s,/ shops, stores, uh, have to be only Russians or
D-..:.....is..:._t.:..;o_B_________8_:_0l_____0_th...:..e.:.....r_na_t;....:..i...:-0l_a...:l...:..ity~2/ but anot a Jew;-~
Dis. to A 8:05 C SOUND OUT/CHANGE D SOUND UNDER: Factory K's at'W) rk
8:06 C SOUND FULL/D SOUND CONT'S. UNDER
He really faced the freedom coming to America. Uh I everything he dreamed, being in Russia about the freedon
in America, aboutthe chances, the opportunity to get a jOt
he wanted, he got that kind of a job. But uh they don't
have, they don't have yet the position that they got or they'
had in Russia and uh the only obstacle, is uh that, that
they don't know English well.
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Dis. to B 8:43 CHANGE D SOUND TO PRES. DINNER TABLE
8:44 C SOUND FULL/D CONTS. UNDER
They adjusted to the American way of life verJ quickly. ;4
Page 15 • . Uh they feel themselves very comfortable here, uh .
got a lot of ~merican friends uh, the relations betwe
them, between Khutorianski family and the America1
friends really help them to get accustomed to Ameri
way of life so they feel themselves comfortably and t
like America very much.
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SEGMENT C
Fade in A :00 D SOUND FULL: Sync. #7
_:0_5__C_S_O_UND __ ___________F_U_L_L..!.../D_S_O_UND~_UNDE_R I ~~: - I This song is a rather sad one ••. it reminds those Russia'!
Jews listening to it of the bitter years in the Soviet Union
For this group of immigrants, who are new-found frtend~
. a long way from home, it is a therapy in away. On I occasion they wUl gather and listen tothe music of their·
good friend Gary Esterman and sing some nostalgia into
their lives. They each left the USSR for slightly differ- •
ent reasons, but mostly because anti-semitism prevente{\
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them from advanCing in their given professions. For
these couples it took great stamina and courage to emmi·
grate to a strange countrysight unseen. But there is no J greater display of courage than an immigrant who has
made the journey alone, -as did GaUna Zimlina, an
English literature teacher from Leningrad.
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Like most Soviet-Jews, GaUna Anatolia Zimlina's life
has been a series of ups and downs •••.-.
Slow Dis. to B portrait GaUna in army uniform
Dis. to A
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GALINA:
I was born in 1927 in Leningrad and I live with my fJ with my father and mother, my father was a, a law}
rather well known in Russia. I was liviIl?; during the
first year of Leningrad blockade. Then we we re eva
1:22 ted in 1942, I was a girl about/ uh 14, 14! maybe. A:
then 1 finished medical courses and as a volunteer, a l
volunteer I went to the front. The beginning uh, Mar
1 :35 1943. I Uh, so I was uh fighting against the fascistur. ~~~~~~~------------------~B&W still, Galina
. in uniform the end of the war. Then 1 came back to Leningrad•.
was st alin's times and you lmaw that uh they were re
hard for Jews••• \ \
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cut to Galina .on cam. t
••• 'till Stalin's death. It was real awful now believe, !
because we, we knew that a lot of people, a lot of JewE
I mean uh, those who really had high pOSitions. Uh the
political, the political, the cultural leaders ub, the soc
leaders, they dissappeared and when we try to ask whe
they are, our parents and our relatives and friends the:
siad shh, don't ask questions, that you not have to ask.
I feel it myself ya see, being at the i'lstitute I was a goe
student and finished the institute with an excellent diplo·
ma and I wanted to become a postgraduater, graduate ar
uh the dean of our faculllv she called me in: "Galina
stop thinking about that, dontt you know w~t kind of,
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was a 17 years ago, I lmew that some liners, some ships
uh which go to London, to America, they, the did need lFAST ! Dis. =~~=.=B============~====:t____ __ __ __ __ __ __ _____ U_h_l_·n_te_rp~r_e_te_r_s a_nd u_h_wh_en I_c_a_m_e t_hp r_e~,~th_e~y sa_i_d_o_ka~y
but after they asked me for a passport and they saw that
I ,I was a Jew, they reject me. , 1
Dis. to A 3:27 D SOUND UNDER: Pres. Coffee Gathering Galina w 70the r immigrants at coffee gathering
So I really suffered because of that because fromthe
point of view of uh they're urn they're attitude to the
documents to the biography, my biography was clean as .
they said, so forthe first time, I even didn't even under
stand why they refuse me, and only then later on, I under
stand the reality. We always uh, we always remember
that we are Jew. In any position, in any way uh, we real]
were afraid of opet:Uy speaking against the Soviet Govern
ment, it was just impossible. So we lived in such a way
only to leave.
Dis. to B 4:13 CHANGE D SOUND TO : Esterman Piano WIT B& W still of Galina
I didn't want to deny the fact that I'm a Jew, but you see
uh, not only me, we were ashamed of being Jews. We
Dis. to A 4:27 lived in an atmosphere of uh, of constantly being afraid! . Galina profile, C. u. looking at synagogue uh, so ~ when there was uh the 6-Days War in Israel we
were very proud of Israel. We felt that we are Jews.
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I am here about 5 months and I'm feeling free here; I c
to anybody that I am a Jew ••...•
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But 'its so strange to us that we can uh speak arout uh, ~ what we want to speak) uh about uh whom we want to l
. ~ speak uh so its strange, we are not yet accustomed to j
But a lot of things we do like here you see, real freedo:
when you feel yourself free, when you understand you c
say whatever you like, wbateveryou want, that you we,
you see we lost the feeling of fear.
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• 5:32 C SOUND FULL: Galina/D SOUND UNDER
DISSOLVE TO 'B f
Galina walking down street
You know naturally that uh just most of uh Jewish immiJ
grants are homesick because we, we live just all our
life in RuSSia, we accustomed to the manner of life and .i
our places where we were born, lived and suffered, I
don't regret that I left the Soviet Union because I really
5:59 because of the anti-semitism, so I don't regret,l/We
immigrants, we are sure that by-and-by we'll get accus J
____t_o_m_e_d_t_O_y_o_u_r_w_a_y_s_o_f_l_if_e_a_n_d_w_e_W_ll_'_l_b_e_co_m_e_r_e_a_l__ \i..Americans, I think so. _6 :09 C SOUND OUT/D SOUND FULL: Piano l'vlusic
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Dis. to A 6:13 Montage of immigrants
Start Matting Credits 6:30
1) Title 2) Adair 3) Writer/Producer
H. Schwartz 4) Assoc. Producers
S. Siegler S. Hutton
5) Cameraman/Film Editor . D. GOulden/D. Mrzena
6) T.D. /Audio '1) Montage Gratefully Acknowledges
Assit. of: 8) Co-op #1 9) Co-op #2
10) MRA/Public Affairs I
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