Journeys beyond the Pale
Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World
Contents
Acknowledgments.....................xi
1 Introduction......................3
2 The Road..........................27
3 The Train.........................90
4 The Ship..........................123
5 Conclusion........................166
Notes...............................175
Bibliography........................203
Index...............................218
Chapter One
Introduction
Of course, it's one hell of a way to get from Petersburg to Stockholm;
but then for a man of my occupation the notion of a straight line being
the shortest distance between two points has lost its attraction a long
time ago. So it pleases me to find out that geography in its own turn is
also capable of poetic justice.
-Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, December 1987
The journey in this book will traverse roads and forests on the
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