Valery Panov, Ballet Star Who Fought to Leave the U.S.S.R., Dies at 87
Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.
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為脫離蘇聯而奮鬥的芭蕾舞明星瓦列裡·帕諾夫逝世,享年87歲
他試圖與身為芭蕾舞者的妻子移居以色列,卻遭到騷擾和監禁,同時成為國際焦點人物,以及冷戰時期蘇聯猶太人困境的象徵。
這是一張黑白四分之三身影的工作室肖像,他穿著深色舞者服裝。他留著捲髮和鬍鬚。
瓦列裡·帕諾夫,攝於1978年。身為國際知名的芭蕾舞明星,他是蘇聯當局的首要目標,蘇聯當局認為高調的叛逃行為會讓他們蒙羞。圖片來源:Jack Mitchell/Getty Images

From his father, who was Jewish, he absorbed a disdain for his ethnicity, internalizing the intense antisemitism of the Soviet state. Early on, he was told that the name Shulman would limit his future as a dancer. He adopted the surname of his first wife, Liya Panova.
“I took the opportunity of marriage to join my father’s cowardice” about being a Jew, he wrote in a 1978 autobiography, “To Dance,” written with George Feifer.
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