THE DETROIT NEWS, Nov. 6, 1961

• Gedalia Rubinovich Pechersky jailed
• Soviet Jewish community leader
• Khrushchev's anti-religious campaign

The front page has a three column heading: "Reds Jail Jewish Leader as Spy; Hint New Purge" (see images) 
Complete with all 44 pages, some small binding holes along the spine, good condition.

Background: Period reporting on Gedalia Rubinovich Pechersky’s November 1961 sentencing is exceptionally rare and historic, as contemporary Soviet media deliberately suppressed or heavily censored information surrounding his trial to evade international condemnation, while Western news outlets, human rights groups, and underground samizdat networks relied on scant, smuggled dispatches to expose the regime's campaign. The few surviving press reports from late 1961 and early 1962—published in outlets like the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and diaspora bulletins—are of profound historic significance, as they provided the first documented evidence to the West of the Khrushchev era’s secret show trials against Jewish religious leaders, framing Pechersky as one of the very first "Prisoners of Zion" and sparking the initial global advocacy movement for Soviet Jewry.