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  • MediaDB / «A Very Narrow Bridge” by Arie Ben-Tzel: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2014 / “We are dealing with Soviet Jewry,” said the owner of the office. – How do you look at such a field of activity? – What is happening now in the Eastern Bloc in general, and in the Soviet Union in particular, is directly related to the repatriation of Jews to Israel. This may become the most significant historical event in the lives of people of my generation. “I would consider it an honor to have a direct connection with this,” Kfir answered without hesitation.” The life of the hero of the novel largely reflects the biography of the author. Repatriation from the USSR in his youth, military service, changing jobs and areas of activity, then studying in the USA, successful business... But there were several years in his biography at the turn of the 90s, when fate or chance gave him the opportunity to plunge into the thick of events taking place at the turning point of the USSR. Ukraine, Transnistria, Georgia... Odessa, Tiraspol, Tbilisi, Baku, Yerevan... Those those who are now over 40 remember how alarming these words uttered from television screens were. The work he was doing was helping in the repatriation, and sometimes in the escape of people “with the right to repatriation”... And years later he wrote about this is a novel in which he said a lot, but not yet everything…