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"Those close to me know that I wanted to exchange the life of an activist in the Jewish emigration movement here for a reunion with Avital in Israel. For more than 2,000 years, my people have been dispersed. Wherever Jews were, they would repeat every year: 'Next year in Jerusalem.' At present I am as far as ever from my people, from Avital, and many hard years of exile are in store for me.
"To my wife and my people, I can only say, 'Next year in Jerusalem.' To this court, which decided my fate in advance, I say nothing."
*Ginzburg, whose mother is Jewish, is a fervent con vert to the Russian Orthodox Church.