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From Kiev I took a wagon heading for Zhitomir. Few of my readers will still remember the long coach wagons in which the past generation traveled before the railroads…
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Yehudah Katzenelson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1917
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Felix Lembersky
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1944–1952
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Mendl said: This city of Kisalon [lit. “Foolsville,” Yid. Glupsk], where I’ll begin my story, is very important, for the entire Jewish Pale of Settlement is named after it. And it is not through…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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1886
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Leon I. Bakhman, Ivan I. Shaposhnikov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1893
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Georgi Zelma
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1942
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I traveled from Odessa by boat for eleven days until we arrived in Jaffa—this was the path taken by the Russian company’s ships. However, this was not the true length of the journey, which was in fact…
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Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
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1890