Born on February 18th, 1940 in Moscow, he was involved in Zionist activity from an early age. Arrested in 1958 for the distribution of books, pamphlets and newspapers which he received from the Israeli Embassy in Moscow, he was sentenced to 5 years in the Gulag. Released in 1963, he continued his Zionist activities. In 1967 he was arrested again, because he refused categorically to inform on his friends about their Zionist activities. This time he was sentenced for “hooliganism” to 2 years in the Gulag. He was released in 1969, and in 1971 his dream of making aliyah came true. Professor of Tel-Aviv University, Dr. Baruch Podolsky earned his PhD in semitology. He is an author and editor of several Russian-Hebrew and Hebrew-Russian dictionaries.
