Ruslan 100: to the centenary of a significant voyage

The Mayflower of Zionism, The First Swallow of the Third Aliyah, The Same Ship - as soon as the Jewish publicists called the flight, which at the end of November 1919, 644 passengers departed from Odessa to Jaffa, most of which subsequently deservedly occupied honorable places in the Zionist pantheon. Historians and philosophers, politicians and social activists, artists and poets, halutzim and random refugees - who were not there on Ruslan. The exhibition Ruslan 100: Centenary of a Significant Flight, which opens at the Museum of the History of Jewish Jews in Odessa, will tell you about the full exciting details of the flight preparation operation, the flight itself and its passengers, as well as what role many of them played in the formation of Israeli society. Migdal-Shorashim. "              We invite you to the opening of the exhibition on November 27 at 17:00.              Press tour: at 16:00.               The curators Vladimir Chaplin and Hera Grudev will present the exhibition.               When: Wednesday, November 27        17:00        Where: Nezhinskaya, 66        Free admission to the opening of the exhibition              ℹ️ At the end of 1919, a ship with six hundred passengers set off from Odessa to Jaffa. The name of this modest ship went down in the history of modern Israel and is so firmly established in it that researchers (not without a bit of irony) admit that they are afraid to count all the descendants of passengers living on the same voyage - almost a fifth of Israelis are sure that their grandfathers and grandmothers in December 1919 came down to the Jaffa coast from the deck of the Ruslan.A superficial acquaintance with the list of passengers is enough to realize the significance of “that flight”: historian Joseph Klausner, architects Yehuda Megidovich and Zeev Rechter, future editor of the newspaper Ha-Arets Moshe Glikson, artists Pinhas Litvinovsky, Yitzhak Frenkel, Joseph Konstantinovsky, Karikat Arikat Navon, dancer and pioneer of Israeli cinema Baruch Agadati, Haim Yassky, head doctor of the Hadassah hospital, who died in a medical convoy in 1948, epidemiologist Schneur Avigdori, professor Arie Dostrovsky, Rachel Cohen-Kaga Mr. Rosa Cohen, one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the mother of the future Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, poet Rachel, Jacob Peremen with an extensive personal book collection and an invaluable art collection.              In the jubilee year, we’ll try to understand loud metaphors and understand whether the Ruslan ship was actually a Jewish ghost ship, our own Flying Dutchman, who took away from Odessa hundreds of outstanding and talented people who were destined to build a new world on a new the earth.