Jews from Ukraine: Aryeh Grevnov — a boy from the Ukrainian town of Ichnia who raised the Jewish flag over the sea 15 years before the creation of Israel
On September 29, 1933, a small trading vessel "Emanuel" set sail from Aarhus, Denmark. On board was a Jewish crew, the ship sailed under a Jewish name, and an unusual blue and white flag with the Star of David fluttered above the deck. The ship was commanded by 21-year-old Aryeh Grevnov.
Author: Alexander Khmelnitsky
The State of Israel did not yet exist. Almost fifteen years remained until May 14, 1948. The current national flag of Israel did not exist in its official status either. But a young Jew from Ukraine was already trying to do what seemed almost fantastic at the time: to create his own Jewish merchant fleet, with his own sailors, ships, a home port in Eretz Israel, and a flag over the sea.
On September 29, "Emanuel" departed from Aarhus to Antwerp with a cargo of soybeans. In the history of Israeli navigation, this voyage remained one of the symbols of the birth of the modern Jewish fleet. Grevnov's company "Hofiya" lasted only a few months. Aryeh himself — less than twenty-two years.
That is why in our section "Jews from Ukraine" we are telling the story of Aryeh Grevnov today — a man whose biography connected a Ukrainian Jewish shtetl, early Zionism, Tel Aviv, and…
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