He was born in
Bazar, Ukraine on 12 May 1912. --> Starting in 1968, Meiman became active in politics and signed several letters of protest against political trials in the
USSR. Meiman also struggled for the right of his wife
Inna Meiman-Kitrossky to go to the USA for medical treatment since she had been diagnosed with cancer. After several years of struggle, she was allowed to go to the US and she died in February 1987 in
Georgetown (Washington, D.C.). Meiman was not allowed to attend her funeral in Washington D.C. In 1988 Meiman was finally allowed to emigrate to Israel, where he became a professor emeritus in
Tel Aviv University. In 1992, in Tel-Aviv, there was a conference in his honor dedicated to his 80th birthday. Meiman died there in 2001. == References ==