Freedom fighter: Ida Nudel

Thousands of letters of support from around the world reached the small shack to which she was exiled in Siberia, and her life story was even immortalized in a song that Naomi Shemer dedicated to her. Ida Nudel was just a diligent economist for most of her life, until the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union made her the brave and iconic voice of generations of Jews who dreamed of Zion.

In the fifth episode of “Muses”, Maya Kosover outlines the character of Ida Nudel – the woman who is remembered as the “guardian angel of the prisoners of Zion” and whose struggle for liberation and aliya to Israel bound the entire Jewish world to her.

Credits:

The quotes from the book “Hand in the Dark” courtesy of Or Am Publishing

“How are you, sister” performed by Anat Malamud. Author and composer: Naomi Shemer

Ida Nudel lands in Israel. Feature broadcast on October 15, 1987; courtesy of Kan 11, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

Archive photos courtesy of Enid Wurtman and Jonathan Feldstein

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