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In his introduction to Ivan Olbracht’s novel The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich, Miroslav Holub tells a story about a Hasidic Jew who was asked how many countries he had seen (Olbracht 1999: vii):
Well, he says, I was born in Austria-Hungary, I was married in Czechoslovakia, I was widowed in Hungary, and now I’m trying to make ends meet in the Soviet Union. Been quite a traveller then, haven’t you? Not at all. I never moved a step from Mukachevo.
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Kockel, U. (2010). First Journey — In the Frontier: Balancing on Borderlines . In: Re-Visioning Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282988_2
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