[3] When communist authorities increased their persecution of Jewish scholars, primarily targeting prominent Russian rabbis, Krasilschikov left the rabbinate and settled in Moscow where he took a job as an accountant.

He lived with his wife in a small apartment near the Kremlin, where, after working for the government during the day, he returned home to study Torah at night.

[2] During the same meeting Krasilschikov also confided that he had written a dual commentary that would make the study of the Jerusalem Talmud far easier for those who wished to learn it.

After making many more unsuccessful attempts, Bronstein was arrested on 5 June 1967 at the airport in Kiev, declared persona non grata, deported from the country, and forbidden to enter any Soviet-controlled state ever again.

[2] Finally, on the 17th attempt, the first of the twenty volumes was successfully smuggled out of Russia by Yaakov Pollack, the rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah of Borough Park in Brooklyn, New York.

This volume, as well as the following one, were edited by a team of scholars and include the text of the Jerusalem Talmud surrounded by the dual commentaries of Krasilschikov, titled Toldos Yitzchak and Tevunah.