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The article deals with a little known novel by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758-1841), which remains in manuscript form, 'Powóz zlamany' (Broken-down carriage), written in the years 1815-1816. The novel is composed of the tales of four travellers, a German, a Frenchman, a Pole and a Jew, forced by a defect of the carriage in which they rode to retire to a roadside inn. The tale of a Volhynia Jew, one...