Published within two years of each other in the early 1920s, the Hebrew poet Shaul Tshernikhovski's sonnet sequence "Crimea" and the Yiddish poet Perets Markish's sonnet sequence "Chatyr-Dag" are important studies in the image and significance of wandering in contemporary Jewish literature. Crimea holds a powerful interest for these two poets as a locus of discussion about land and territory, about the connection (or lack thereof) of Jews to a landscape that is in a sense "beyond the Pale," both familiar and exotic, and a place of personal escape or refuge in these poets' own biographies. Moreover, their conscious engagement with the great Eastern European literary landmarks of Crimea -Alexander Pushkin's "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray" and Adam Mickiewicz's "Crimean Sonnets" - makes these important texts for understanding Jewish cultural movement in the early twentieth century.