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1920 Diary
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Finally, a town. We ride through the shtetl of Tartakuv, Jews, ruins, cleanliness of a Jewish kind, the Jewish race, little stores. I am still ill, I’ve still not gotten back on…

Contributor:

Isaac Babel

Places:

Sokal, Second Polish Republic (Sokal, Ukraine)
Komarow, Poland

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Travel, War, Violence, Cities, Shtetl

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Travel Writing
Epistle of Israel’s Deliverance
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In the days of Nicholas the First, the great tsar and emperor (May he live forever!) who…

Contributor:

Joseph Solomon Lutski

Places:

Yevpatoria, Russian Empire (Yevpatoriya, Ukraine)

Date:

1840

Subjects:

Travel, Conscription, Government, Karaites

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Travel Writing