Slovakian area
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Slovakian area is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 14, 2021 and July 13, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as ""did fieldwork in the Slovakian area of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire""; “fieldwork in the Slovakian area of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire”. It most often appears alongside Albert Einstein, America, Ashkenazi Jews.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 14, 2021
- Last seen: July 13, 2022
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- Albert Einstein (2 shared issues)
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- Ashkenazi Jews (2 shared issues)
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- Austro-Hungarian Empire (2 shared issues)
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- Emily Greene Balch (2 shared issues)
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- Germany (2 shared issues)
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- Greg Cochran (2 shared issues)
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- Jewish (2 shared issues)
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- Kiev Province (2 shared issues)
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- New York (2 shared issues)
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- Noah Smith (2 shared issues)
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- Poland (2 shared issues)
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Lest accounts by Ravage and other memoirists be dismissed as suspect late reconstructions, it is instructive to compare very similar accounts reported in real-time proximity to the events by disinterested sources, which tend to corroborate memoiristic accounts. One such example occurs in a 1905 study conducted by Emily Greene Balch, the American ethnographer, who did fieldwork in the Slovakian area of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Balch noted that the first Jew to emigrate from a town she visited was a Jewish cloth merchant who had gone bankrupt. Likewise, in a social survey of a shtetl in the Kiev Province (Ukraine), we read of an elderly storekeeper, once quite well off, reduced to a hole-in-the-wall shop, selling goods on consignment for a larger firm. Apart from two spinster daughters who helped out by sewing linens, all this man's children and their families (twenty-five people in all) had left for America within the space of six years.
Lest accounts by Ravage and other memoirists be dismissed as suspect late reconstructions, it is instructive to compare very similar accounts reported in real-time proximity to the events by disinterested sources, which tend to corroborate memoiristic accounts. One such example occurs in a 1905 study conducted by Emily Greene Balch, the American ethnographer, who did fieldwork in the Slovakian area of what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Balch noted that the first Jew to emigrate from a town she visited was a Jewish cloth merchant who had gone bankrupt. Likewise, in a social survey of a shtetl in the Kiev Province (Ukraine), we read of an elderly storekeeper, once quite well off, reduced to a hole-in-the-wall shop, selling goods on consignment for a larger firm. Apart from two spinster daughters who helped out by sewing linens, all this man's children and their families (twenty-five people in all) had left for America within the space of six years.