Question: When did the soviet Union seal off the city where the author of The Wandering Jews worked?

"They sought shelter in cities and towns where most of them had never been and, unfortunately, where they were made despicably unwelcome." The Wandering Jews is a short non-fiction book (1926–27) by Joseph Roth about the plight of the Jews in the mid-1920s who, with other refugees and displaced persons in the aftermath of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the redrawing of national frontiers following the Treaty of Versailles, had fled to the West from the Baltic States, Poland and Russia. Poverty stricken villagers, they were set apart by their origins, their piety and their dress. In the last five months of 1926 he visited the Soviet Union where he wrote the final section, "The Condition of the Jews in Soviet Russia". Walter Jens called it the best book on its subject in German. An English translation by Michael Hofmann was published in 2001. <SEP> the language was first introduced in north america when russian explorers voyaged into alaska and claimed it for russia during the 1700s. although most colonists left after the united states bought the land in 1867, a handful stayed and preserved the russian language in this region to this day, although only a few elderly speakers of this unique dialect are left. sizable russian-speaking communities also exist in north america, especially in large urban centers of the u.s. and canada, such as new york city, philadelphia, boston, los angeles, nashville, san francisco, seattle, spokane, toronto, baltimore, miami, chicago, denver and cleveland. in a number of locations they issue their own newspapers, and live in ethnic enclaves (especially the generation of immigrants who started arriving in the early 1960s). only about 25% of them are ethnic russians, however. before the dissolution of the soviet union, the overwhelming majority of russophones in brighton beach, brooklyn in new york city were russian-speaking jews. afterward, the influx from the countries of the former soviet union changed the statistics somewhat, with ethnic russians and ukrainians immigrating along with some more russian jews and central asians. according to the united states census, in 2007 russian was the primary language spoken in the homes of over 850,000 individuals living in the united states. <SEP> West Berlin was 100 miles (161 kilometres) east and north of the Inner German border and only accessible by land from West Germany by narrow rail and highway corridors. The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, physically separated West Berlin from its East Berlin and East German surroundings until it fell in 1989. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945. It was, however, a de facto part of West Germany. It had a special and unique legal status because its administration was formally conducted by the Western Allies. At the same time, East Berlin, de jure occupied and administered by the Soviet Union, was the de facto capital of East Germany. <SEP> vecheslav frantsevich zagonek (; december 19, 1919, city of irkutsk, soviet russia – june 24, 1994, saint petersburg, russian federation) was a soviet, russian painter, people's artist of the ussr, member of the academy of arts of the ussr, who lived and worked in leningrad. he was a member of the leningrad union of artists and regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscapes and genre paintings. <SEP> The selection of pieces from Roth's large journalistic output was made by Michael Bienert and published in German in 1996. The English translation with the present title was made by Michael Hofmann and appeared in 2003. What I Saw: Reports from Berlin, 1920-1933 is a book of reportage by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth from the era of the Weimar Republic. The pieces in the book "record the violent social and political paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy" of those years, but some of them also report on more prosaic aspects of life in Berlin in those years, such as the public parks and the rising entertainment industry.