Editing Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (section)

=== Imprisonment and release ===
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In 1927, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Shpalerna or Shpalerka Prison (latter known as Bolshoy Dom) in [[Leningrad]]. He was accused of [[counter-revolutionary]] activities, and sentenced to death.<ref name="wer"/> A worldwide storm of outrage and pressure from Western governments and the [[International Red Cross]] forced the communist regime to commute the death sentence and instead on [[3 Tammuz]] it banished him to [[Kostroma]] for an original sentence of three years.<ref name="wer"/> [[Yekaterina Peshkova]], a prominent Russian human rights activist, helped from inside as well. This was also commuted following political pressure from the outside, and in July 1927, he was finally allowed to leave Russia for [[Riga]] in Latvia,<ref>''[[Ami Magazine]]''. No. 245. p. 95.</ref> where he lived until 1929 before traveling to [[Mandatory Palestine]] (now Israel).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, the "Rebbe Rayatz" (1880-1950) A brief biography of the sixth Chabad Rebbe |url=https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/425/jewish/The-Rebbe-Rayatz.htm |website=Chabad.org}}</ref>

Yosef Yitzchak's release from Soviet imprisonment is celebrated each year by the Chabad community.<ref name=sichos5738>Schneerson, Menachem M. [http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/sichos-in-english/1/28.htm "Yud-Beis Tammuz 5738."] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429045707/http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/sichos-in-english/1/28.htm |date=29 April 2014 }} ''Sichos in English: 5738. Volume 1.'' Vaad Lehafotzas Sichos (Sichos in English). 1978. sichosinenglish.org. Retrieved 28 April 2014.</ref>

After his release, Yosef Yitzchak went to Mandatory Palestine where he saw holy gravesites, local yeshivas and Torah centers,<ref>[[Jewish Morning Journal|Der Morgen Journal]], 18 September 1929.</ref> and met with rabbis and community leaders from 7–22 August 1929.<ref>''Der Morgen Journal'', 18 September 1929.</ref> He visited [[Hebron]] ten days before the [[1929 Hebron massacre|massacre]] and, according to Chabad accounts, was the first Jew for many years to be allowed into the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]].<ref name=EinGil>{{cite news | author = Ehud Ein-Gil | title = Into the maelstrom | newspaper = Haaretz | date = 20 August 2004}} [https://www.haaretz.com/2004-08-20/ty-article/into-the-maelstrom/0000017f-db5a-d3ff-a7ff-fbfaf5a90000 Part 1] [https://www.haaretz.com/2004-08-20/ty-article/into-the-maelstrom-part-ii/0000017f-db5a-d3ff-a7ff-fbfaa67a0000 Part 2]</ref> Little information is available about the effect his visit had on the attitude of the local Arabs.<ref name=EinGil/>