After the Sovietization of Georgia in 1921 , Baazov , aided by his son , the leading Georgian-Jewish writer Gerzel Baazov , organized Jewish schools across the country and later founded the magazine '' makaveeli '' ( " Maccabean " ) which was closed by the Soviet authorities during a crackdown on Georgian Jewish cultural institutions after the 1924 anti-Soviet August Uprising in Georgia . Next year , he managed to secure the free passage for several Georgian Jewish families to the Land of Israel , launching the first large wave of Aliyah from Georgia . During the purge of 1938 , both of his sons were arrested by the Soviet NKVD and Gerzel was executed . Soon , David Baazov was also arrested and sentenced to death for " Zionist activities " . The sentence was later commuted to exile in Siberia . In 1945 , he returned to the Georgian SSR and chiefly engaged in educational activities . The main writer on David Baazov and the main collector of his works was his daughter Fanny Baazova ( 1912 – 1980 ) . The Georgian Jews ' History Museum in Tbilisi has been named after him
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David Baazov