A Modern Exodus
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From Stalin's labor camps to Israel's shores, Lyuba Bershadskaya's harrowing journey echoes the biblical Exodus narrative in striking ways. Through a comparative hermeneutical analysis, Bershadskaya's autobiographical account interweaves with passages from the Passover Haggadah, revealing profound parallels between ancient and contemporary Jewish persecution. Following her 1946 arrest on charges of treason while working at the American Embassy, Bershadskaya endured twenty-eight years in Soviet labor camps before finally emigrating to Israel in 1970. The systematic dehumanization of Jewish citizens through forced labor, family separation, and denial of basic rights mirrors the biblical narrative of Hebrew enslavement in Egypt. Paradoxically, this persecution strengthened Jewish identity—as Bershadskaya notes, Soviet oppression "helped turn us into Jews." Her testimony fulfills the Haggadah's mandate that "in every generation one must look upon oneself as if he personally had come out of Egypt," demonstrating an unbroken chain of Jewish historical consciousness linking biblical exodus to modern liberation struggles.

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Published 1981
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Azriel Fellner