Migdal Times - Special Issue

A new issue of the Migdal Times magazine has gone out of print, entirely dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Ruslan’s significant voyage and timed to coincide with an exhibition at the Odessa Museum of Jewish History.              Among other materials, the issue contains full details about the life of passengers on the “Letters from the Way” flight of Naum Hess, previously unknown to the modern reader; a number of publications of the national Israeli poet Rachel returns to the reader, printed in the Odessa periodical long before its first Hebrew-language publication and for many years unknown to specialists; For the first time in Russian, fragments of the biographical book of Joseph Klausner are presented, concerning the ups and downs around Ruslan. The issue included articles by Vitaliy Oplachko, who devoted many years to a thorough study of the history of Ruslan’s flight, and curator of the exhibition, Hera Grudeva.              Исследователь Researcher Vitaliy Oplachko, curator of the exhibition Hera Grudev, editor-in-chief of the magazine Inna Naydis will take part in the presentation of the issue.               When: Thursday, December 19        17:00        Where: Nezhinskaya, 66        Free admission              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, 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.