Shubin

So, imagine a triangle. One with three equal sides. And three equal angles, if you pedantically need the tautology. One part of a Magen David, a Star of David. Except magen means shield. Go figure. [[Imagine one point of the triangle]]

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(css: "color: gray;")[So, imagine a triangle. One with three equal sides. And three equal angles, if you pedantically need the tautology. One part of a Magen David, a Star of David. Except magen means shield. Go figure.] (css: "color: gray;")[Imagine one point of the triangle is Lublin, great city of the Polish enlightenment, once a royal city, still with its castle. The troops may be Russian, the taxes may go to the Russian tsar, but this is still a Polish city. The railway came last year, and the first train went to Warsaw. What does that tell you?] [Actually, it tells you nothing. This was also recently an Austrian city, German is spoken by anyone of class and learning, and it is a place of great Teutonic industry. And also a city with many Protestant churches. But the Protestants are Polish. It's complicated here.] [[I didn't mention the Jews.]]

(css: "color: gray;")[So, imagine a triangle. One with three equal sides. And three equal angles, if you pedantically need the tautology. One part of a Magen David, a Star of David. Except magen means shield. Go figure.] (css: "color: gray;")[Imagine one point of the triangle is Lublin, great city of the Polish enlightenment, once a royal city, still with its castle. The troops may be Russian, the taxes may go to the Russian tsar, but this is still a Polish city. The railway came last year, and the first train went to Warsaw. What does that tell you?] (css: "color: gray;")[Actually, it tells you nothing. This was also recently an Austrian city, German is spoken by anyone of class and learning, and it is a place of great Teutonic industry. And also a city with many Protestant churches. But the Protestants are Polish. It's complicated here.] I didn't mention the Jews. Half the people of Lublin are Jewish. They call it the Jewish Oxford. Maybe. I don't know. But, in any case, Lublin is the first point of the triangle. [[So, the second point.]]

[So, the second point. This is Brest. Or Brest-Litovsk. Or Brzesc. Or Brasta. Or Brisk. Depends on what you speak at home and what you eat for dinner and how you pray. Complicated, see? Me, I'm Jewish, so I call it Brisk. Brisk is also a warm hearth of Jewish learning. The Jewish Cambridge, no-one ever called it. But maybe.] [[The second point.]]

(css: "color: gray;")[So, the second point. This is Brest. Or Brest-Litovsk. Or Brzesc. Or Brasta. Or Brisk. Depends on what you speak at home and what you eat for dinner and how you pray. Complicated, see? Me, I'm Jewish, so I call it Brisk. Brisk is also a warm hearth of Jewish learning. The Jewish Cambridge, no-one ever called it. But maybe.] [The third point, though. This is Shubin. Or Shchubin. Or Schubin. Lesser known. Smaller. Again, a Polish prince-in-name-only, paying taxes to the Russian crown, governs Poles and Lithuanians and Ukrainians and Germans and Russians and Tartars and Jews. All the world in this little city.] [[The third point.]]

(css: "color: gray;")[So, the second point. This is Brest. Or Brest-Litovsk. Or Brzesc. Or Brasta. Or Brisk. Depends on what you speak at home and what you eat for dinner and how you pray. Complicated, see? Me, I'm Jewish, so I call it Brisk. Brisk is also a warm hearth of Jewish learning. The Jewish Cambridge, no-one ever called it. But maybe.] (css: "color: gray;")[The third point, though. This is Shubin. Or Shchubin. Or Schubin. Lesser known. Smaller. Again, a Polish prince-in-name-only paying taxes to the Russian crown governs Poles and Lithuanians and Germans and Russians and Jews.] [It's the seventeenth of June, 1878 (Or the Julian fifth of June, 1878. Or the Hebrew seventeenth of Sivan, 5638. So it goes.) And on this day it is to Shubin, not the brightest of these three stars but perhaps the purest, that we must go to.] [[To Shubin. Or Shchubin. We answer to both.]]

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<img src="shubin/map_1.jpg"> (css: "color: gray;")[What does that tell you?] [[Actually, it tells you nothing.]]

<img src="shubin/map_2.jpg"> (css: "color: gray;")[But, maybe.] [[The third point, though.]]

<img src="shubin/map_3.jpg"> (css: "color: gray;")[All the world in this little city.] [[It's the seventeenth of June]]

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