MLife микроблоги, запись 08.10.2026 16:04

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More of our reading notes and historical threads are collected here on Litsy:

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I write about these intersections of books, memory, Ukraine and Israel as Stas Shifer at NAnews.

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Ruth later told this extraordinary story in The Last Escape, co-authored with Peggy Mann — a first-person route through secret immigration, wartime Europe and the struggle to bring Jews to Eretz Israel.

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Another life from the same vanished world: Menachem Begin and Aliza Arnold married in Truskavets in 1939, only months before war destroyed the Europe they knew.

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Stas Shifer traces Ruth Kluger-Aliav’s path from Ukraine to the first team of Mossad LeAliyah Bet — and back into Europe to help Jews escape.

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A memoir can turn a historical name back into a living person. Ruth Kluger-Aliav’s The Last Escape does exactly that: Kyiv, Chernivtsi, secret ships, refugees, and the road to Eretz Israel become one human story. History feels different when someone who lived it tells it.