--:lVI -~ 4~2/fl.A Question of Life" ,

SEGMENT A

.J

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.

:54 D SOUND UNDER/C SOUND FULL: Adair

I

~- 412/Seg.A Page 2 .

.. 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.

1 :03 C SOUND our /D SOUND FULL

~ !

_1:1_0___ __ ____ ,D_S_O_U_ND_U_ND_E_R---,/!:-.C_S_O_UND F_UL_-L_:_A_d_a_ir

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

1:35 FADE IN E.T. :MUSIC UNDER: DoG.

"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."

M - -4I2/Seg.A Page .3.

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

M - 41 2/Seg. A .Page 4.

immigrant who brought her family to America stated:

"It was a choice between freedom or oppression--It wa:

The Question of Life."

~tte: Title 3:04

3:06 C SOUND IE 0 T. FULL/D CONT'D. UNDER

Matte: Montage 3:09 I

I _F_A_D_E_T__ ____ __ ____ ______________________ 1O_B_L_A_C_K~_;_____3_1_4 F_A_D_E A_L_L_S_O_UND o_UT

Fade up on A· 3:16 FADE IN D SOUND UNDER: Mmic Newspape r Stills I

l . ~

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

__ ____ ___

Page.5. .

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.

. l ~

t ~4~:2~1____C S_O_UND O_UT~/D~_S~O~UND F~UL~L~:~M_u_s~ic~________ ,

4:25 C SOUND·FULL/D SOUND UNDER

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

I

M - 412/Seg.A .page 7.

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.

7:18 C SOUND OUT ,

FADE TO BLACK 7:20 FADE D SOUND: Music -OUT

FADE TO BUMPER 7:21

FADE TO BLACK 7:24 END SEGMENT A

M - 412rThe Question of Life" Page ,8.

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 ~.

f

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.

.'

M - 412/Seg. B Page.9 •

: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 .

•

1:45

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./

1:50 D SOUND OUT: Music

Dr. Gutman on cam. They sent him to concentration camp and he died over

there .••and I never saw my father again.

2:05 C SOUND OUTjD FULL: Sync. #4

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

'M - 412/Seg.B Page.10.

Dis. to B 2:47 Dr. Gutman's mother & sister

2:53

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.

M - 412!Seg. B Page ,n.

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

M - 4l2/Seg. B Page .12•

. 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.

5:40 C SOUND OUT/D SOUND IN FULL/CONTtD E. T. UNDEf Add Re-verb on D

Slow Dis. to A 5:42 t

I End Dis. to A Full 5:47

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.

I

M - 4l2/Seg.B Page 13. I

Khuto}ianSki'S but they say, it was a decision,

6:18 FADE E. T.: Music-OUT

G4nnaili in classroom

they will never regret•••..•••

~ I _6_:2_0__C_S_O_UND O_U_T...:.../D_S~O_U_ND_F_U_L_L 1__ ____~____

6:29 C SOUND FULL-Interpret/D SOUND UNDER I i I

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

.;.....D_S_O;.....UND:.........-_C_H_A_N_G_E_S_T_O_K_H~UT_OR_IA_N_SKI______ \

,M - 412/Seg. B . Page 14.

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.

t 8;:42 C SOUND OUT

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.

9:24 c SOUND OUT \

w_~~A~P~~~T~O~B~L~A~C_K______~9:~2~5____ __ _____________________.tF_A_D_E~OU~T A~L_L_S_OU~ND

F AbE TJP ON BUMPE R 9:26 tm :; ~ ...........-crt%;zr;- -­ \

Fade to 131ack 9:29 \-.-- ~-7 a ~7-·'

END SEGMENT B \ l

\ l I

(

.'

1M - 412/"The Question of Life" Page 16.

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{\

• I

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.

:54 CHANGE D SOUND TO: Esterman-Romanito Piano tt .­ I

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

Page, 17.

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••• \ \

~:52 D SOUND OUT/C CONT'S. FULL: GaUna \

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,

I ' M - 412/Seg.C

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.

1

Page 19.

I am here about 5 months and I'm feeling free here; I c

to anybody that I am a Jew ••...•

4:47 CHANGE D SOUND TO SYNC. #8 UNDER

f

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.

I5:17 D SOUND FULL/C SOUND OlI'

• 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

I

lV1 - 412/Seg. C Page 20.

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

FADE TO BLACK '1 :12 FADE our ALL SOUND

END SEGMENT C

END SHOW

I j,

I !. I I I