A Voyage to the Land of Ze-ka

Julius Margolin

1947

Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and supernatural: what would have happened in Pinsk, if Elijah the Prophet had appeared in the city at the beginning of the summer of 1940?

Much time has…

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Julius Margolin

1900–1971

Julius Margolin was born in Pinsk, earned a doctorate in philosophy in Berlin, lived in Łódź, and went to Palestine in 1936. While visiting his parents in Eastern Europe in 1939, he was trapped during the Soviet invasion of Poland and imprisoned in a labor camp. Upon his release in 1945, Margolin returned to Palestine and wrote in Russian about his experiences; his attempts to publicize his story were not rewarded. Although his work circulated in several versions, the full text of A Voyage to the Land of Ze-ka (Ze-ka signifying zaklioutchony-kontrevolutioner, or Gulag prisoners) was published only in 2010.

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