Podolia

To diminish as far as possible the fatigue of the long journey, they proceeded by short stages, and having passed through European Turkey, they arrived at Kaminieck in Podolia, which is the first fortress belonging to Russia.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 Various

For in Podolia, which is now subject to the King of Poland, their hives are so great, and combs so abundant, that huge boars, overturning and falling into them, are drowned in the honey before they can recover and find the means to come out.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

For in Podolia, which is now subject to the King of Poland, their hives are so great, and combs so abundant, that huge boars, overturning and falling into them, are drowned in the honey before they can recover and find the means to come out.

Of Savage Beasts and Vermin. Chapter XIV. [1577, Book III., Chapters 7 and 12; 1587, Book III., Chapters 4 and 6 1909

Chaya Lispector was born in Chechelnyk, Podolia, a shtetl in what is today Ukraine.

clarice lispector | mother’s day, a pious invention « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Reb Yosef Leyb was originally from Podolia, the same region in Ukraine where the Baal Shem Tov was born, and was the Rov, the Rabbi, in the Ukrainian town of Belotserkovka when Reb Fiszele was born in 1743.

Menachem Rosensaft: The Past: Far More Than Prologue 2010

Reb Yosef Leyb was originally from Podolia, the same region in Ukraine where the Baal Shem Tov was born, and was the Rov, the Rabbi, in the Ukrainian town of Belotserkovka when Reb Fiszele was born in 1743.

Menachem Rosensaft: The Past: Far More Than Prologue 2010

Reb Yosef Leyb was originally from Podolia, the same region in Ukraine where the Baal Shem Tov was born, and was the Rov, the Rabbi, in the Ukrainian town of Belotserkovka when Reb Fiszele was born in 1743.

Menachem Rosensaft: The Past: Far More Than Prologue 2010

Born in 1911 in the small village of Sawranh in the Podolia region of Ukraine, Elisa Lispector arrived in Brazil in 1920 together with her parents, Pinkhas (1885 – 1940) and Marieta Lispector (1889 – 1930), and sisters Tânia (b. 1915) and Clarice (1920 – 1977).

Elisa Lispector. 2009

The region of Podolia where her family lived was one in which many Jews were employed in forestry and farms.

Hannah Chizhik. 2009

Some of the more famous among these women were Sarah bas-Tovim of Podolia, Leah Dreyzl of Stanislav and Leah Horowitz of Bolekhov, all from the eighteenth century and all women prayer leaders (firzogerins) in their synagogues.

Learned Women in Traditional Jewish Society. 2009