I'm looking at a 1909 document where the place of birth definitely
looks like Zarifkow, Russia, but I cannot identify any place
resembling that. Elsewhere the person put down Odessa as his place
of birth.

Any ideas about what this place might be?

Thanks,

Deborah Barr
researching BARR in Moghilev-Podolsky; LUMER, GURIEVSKY in Bessarabia;
ELSTER, HOLTZMAN, ABRAMSON, JACOBSON in Poland