Friday, March 21, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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Former Soviet scientist
Uf JL professor
thanks
By Jen Deselms
Staff Reporter
Scientist A.M. Khazanov gave a UNL
English professor an Israeli wooden
camel as a gift of thanks for encourag
ing him while he was in disfavor with
the Soviet government.
During a press conference Thursday
, morning Khazanov said a letter from
Prof. Paul Olson gave him encourage
ment when the Soviets curtailed his
scientific studies. He said Olson's invi
tation to attend a conference at the
Nebraska Center for Continuing Edu
cation pleased him even though he did
not expect to attend.
Khazanov, an internationally recog
nized expert on the nomadic indigen
ous people of middle Asia, is in Lincoln
this week for a Great Plains Center
conference on "Plains Indian Cultures:
Past and Present Meanings."
When Khazanov applied for permis
sion to emigrate to Israel six years ago,
he said, the Soviet government refused
his application because it was not in
their interest for him to move. Kha
zanov said he wanted to move to Israel
because he is Jewish.
Olson first wrote to Khazanov 18
months ago to invite him to the confer
ence. But Khazanov couldn't attend the
conference because he couldn't leave
the country. If someone had told him
then that he eventually would be able
to attend the conference, Khazanov
said, he would have thought it was a
"cruel joke."
Olson's letter surprised him, Kha
zanov said, and he sent a reply through
friends in Finland.
When asked how he got the letter
out of the Soviet Union, Khazanov at
first would not answer. Then he replied
that he sent the letter by "pigeon post",
since birds have no borders.
After the government refused his
emigration application, Khazanov said
he was removed from the Soviet Aca
demy of Sciences, and couldn't speak
about or publish his research. But, he
said, he was able to send manuscripts
to other countries for publication. Kha
zanov continuted to insist on his right
to emigrate. Then, last November, he
was called into the KGB office and
given a last official warning to stop
insisting on the move to Israel.
But just when he thought he would
be sent to Siberia, Khazanov said, the
government told him he would be leav
ing for Israel in three days.
Khazanov and his family now live in
Israel, where he teaches at Hebrew
University.
Even after Khazanov arrived in Israel,
communication was difficult. Olson
finally found him after contacting Kha
zanov's relatives who also are living in
Israel.
Khazanov said he thinks the confer
ence goes beyond Nebraska and the
United States. This may be the most
important conference in this area of
study in recent years, he said.
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