The following Jewish writers and poets used to live and work in Odessa: Mendele Mocher Sforim, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Chernihovskiy, Sholem Aleichem, Leon Pinsker, Isaac Babel, the historians Sh. Dubnov, I.-G. Clausner. Odessa is the only place where you can see the modern Jewish stores and restaurants functioning next to the memorial plates of famous Jewish people and the synagogues function on the place of the 19th century synagogues.