place
Berdichev
also: Бердичев, Berdichevs
A town in the Kiev province of the Russian Empire (now Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine) with a large Jewish population, invoked here purely as a stock byword for a muddy, sleepy provincial backwater.
Reading notes
- Spring's Arrival (A Discourse) §9 Berdichevs
Berdichev, a town in the Kiev province of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) with a large Jewish population; named here as a stock provincial byword for a muddy backwater, one of a comic list of interchangeable towns.