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Podolsk

Index: La muerte y la brújula, Artificios, Ficciones, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 499.
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city in Russia near Moscow

Fishburn and Hughes: "A region of south-east Poland which passed to Russia in 1793. A heavy concentration of Jews lived in Podolsk, which became the centre of many important events in Jewish history. During the sixteenth century a spread of Cabbalistic teachings prepared the ground for the rise of the false Messianic movement of Shabbethai Zvi. In the eighteenth century Podolsk was a stronghold of Hasidism,. Owing to centuries of poverty and persecution, it became a breeding ground for superstition and religious intolerance, which are said to have been more rife in Podolsk than in any other place within the Jewish Pale of Settlement." (155-56)