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 | | It is the Covenant with God, says the shtetl, that has enabled a weak and homeless people to survive the great empires of Egypt and Babylon, Greece and Rome, Byzantium and Islam, and has caused their sacred books to enter into the Holy Writ of half the world. | | | According to the shtetl, the Children of Israel have survived solely because of the Covenant made with God in accepting His Law. | | | Under the Covenant, the people of Israel are bound to accept God as their only God. |
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http://www.d.umn.edu/~kmaurer/Fiddler/RoadtoShtetl.html
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| | The Shtetl as Covenantal Landscape, by Professor David G. Roskies |
| | The shtetl was reclaimed as the place of common origin (even when it wasn't), the source of a collective folk identity rooted in a particular historical past and, most importantly, as the locus of a new, secular covenant. | | | In the shtetl's last chapter, the surviving sons and daughters of the European catastrophe became the scribes of a new, collective scripture. |
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http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/issue3/covenant.html
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| | SHTETL LIFE IN THE MODERN WORLD |
| | The shtetls was a place where, perhaps because of limited choice, people came together in a spiritual community. | | | It was in the kahals, then the synagogue, and finally the shtetls, that Judaic practices came to fruition and matured. | | | What is essential to me is that people, of whatever belief or nationality, seek first and foremost, the brother- and sister- hood of spiritual community. |
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http://www.bethyam.org/Shtetl.htm
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| | Wild Times in the Old Shtetl / Magic and mysticism are part of daily life for four friends in the 19th century |
| | Nevertheless, Nattel pulls off a memorable feat of re-creation with ``The River Midnight.'' Her research on shtetl culture is thorough to a fault: A five-page bibliography at the end of the book cites sources on topics as diverse as tzarist economics and crime among 19th century Jews. | | | Nattel has stated that sexuality is one item ``that often get(s) left out of books about the shtetl,'' and her insight here gives the story great pizzazz. | | | Wild Times in the Old Shtetl / Magic and mysticism are part of daily life for four friends in the 19th century |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/03/07/RV38453.DTL
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| | CNN - 'There Once Was A World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok' - March 8, 1999 |
| | In this shtetl as in so many others, the Jews lived and thrived in the midst of pagan, Muslim, and Christian neighbors, managing to be both of that world and apart from it, for many centuries. | | | Her work is a detailed history of the changing life and enduring traditions in the small Polish shtetl. | | | My uncle Shalom Sonenson, who had been privileged to study with him, re-created for me the image of his heder (the religious elementary school attended by all shtetl boys). |
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http://www.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9903/there.once
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| | 79.02.02: From The Shtetl To The Tenement: The East European Jews and America, A Social History 1850-1925 |
| | For the Jews of the shtetl the Sabbath and other religious holidays were a time to forget their daily problem’s and hardships and to reflect on the richness of their heritage. | | | The public bath was an important institution in the shtetl’s life, the men alternating with the women in its use. | | | After the Sabbath meal, the master of the house usually took a nap from which he arose to test his sons on what they had learned at the heder during the week. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.02.x.html
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| | Demythologizing the Shtetl |
| | Excited discussions were held on the street, in homes and in the Prayer Houses." The shtetl's Hasidim went by the name of their Rebbe, Aleksander, Ger, Vurke. | | | People came to the shtiblekh not only to pray; they were open all day, and whoever had a little free time came there to study Talmud or to leaf through a [religious] book. | | | In spite of religious prejudice fed by the Catholic Church and what historian Salo Baron called the inevitable "dislike of the unlike" by both groups, a kind of benevolent coexistence, and on a personal level often trust and friendship, developed between Jews and peasants ("even our fathers and grandfathers knew each other"). |
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http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/BCooperman/NewCity/Shtetl.html
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| | Community and Identity in the interwar Shtetl |
| | It is as a symbol of a certain kind of Jewish community that the shtetl claims its place in Jewish history. | | | A hapless father in a shtetl near Vilna, told that his daughter was going on picnics in the woods on Saturday afternoon and even carrying baskets of food, replied, "Male vos zey trogn in vald iz nor a halbe tsore. | | | What mattered was the effort of thefareyn to give the Jewish artisan a new sense of self-respect and inspire him to play a more assertive role in the affairs of the shtetl. |
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http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pages/stories_interwar.html
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| | Shtetl: Comments |
| | And I will >e-mail my friend Jerry Woolpy to tell him to be sure and see Shtetl. | | | To help exorcise his personal demons, Marzynski returns to Poland with Nathan Kaplan, a Jewish American searching for his own roots in the small Polish town of Bransk, near the Russian border. | | | The following items have come to my attention: 1. |
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http://www.logtv.com/films/shtetl/comments.html
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| | MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Of Flying Fiddlers & the Gefilte Fish Line |
| | Thousands of shtetls existed in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century, and while many of Jewish communities shared a similar organizational structure, they were not all the same. | | | This simple, down-to-earth culture--guided by what seems to contemporary observers a colorful combination of religion and folk wisdom--is where we came from. | | | Where there were Hasidim, there were likely Mitnagdim, the opponents of Hasidism, who practiced traditional historical Judaism. |
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http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history_community/Modern/ModernReligionCulture/Shtetl.htm
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| | They woke to shots; the Nazis had killed the remaining slave laborers in their shtetl. | | | Still, she says, “my heart belongs to Trochenbrod.” She has instructed her sons to some day sprinkle her ashes on the shtetl’s mass grave. | | | The survivors of Trochenbrod and their descendants founded an organization in Israel that has recorded the town& history. |
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http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2005/11/03/news/local/film1104.txt
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| | Shtetl CO-OP Initiatives Page |
| | The initial Shtetl CO-OPs were formed for the indexing and/or data entry of the LDS microfilms of the Warsaw and Bialystok Jewish vital records. | | | JRI-Poland has undertaken the massive task of indexing the Jewish vital records of Poland in the LDS (Mormon) microfilms. | | | View some of the Shtetl CO-OP leaders who attended the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in SLC, Utah, July 2000. |
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http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jri-plin.htm
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| | The Shtetl |
| | The residents were poor folk, fundamentalist in faith, earthy, superstitious, stubbornly resisting secularism or change. | | | The Rabbi of any shtetl always led his congregation with great dignity and was highly respected by all Jews. | | | In many a shtetl, most of the inhabitants were Jews; in others, all were Jews. |
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http://www.templesanjose.org/JudaismInfo/history/shtetl.htm
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| | The Tailor Shop, Threads of our Past - Life in the Shtetl |
| | His home was the place where the shtetl Jew enjoyed his Yidishkeyt in the serenity and peace of Sabbath, in the rituals of the Passover seder, or in the dignity and holiness of the High Holidays. | | | The social, political, and economic forces in the 19th and 20th centuries eroded the patterns of life which had evolved in the shtetl. | | | Both the sacred and the profane were integrated in this way of life. |
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http://www.reiterblitzer.com/chapter4_continued6.html
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| | The Books: There Once Was A World by Yaffa Eliach |
| | Confronted with the near total disappearance of the world of the shtetl, Eliach was indefatigable in her search for the truth--of a people, a place, a culture. | | | In Eishyshok, she learned, as in hundreds of communities in Eastern Europe, the German occupiers of World War I had been so civilized that no one could believe their sons would be any different. | | | Her profound understanding of medieval history illuminates her description of early Lithuania, the last pagan country in Europe and the only one where Jews lived on equal terms with the rest of the population. |
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http://www.twbookmark.com/books/78/0316232521
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| | Devora Publishing - The Inexhaustible Wellspring (Book) |
| | Contrary to popular belief, the shtetl was not a place where fiddlers on the roof watched the world pass them by. | | | The author presents clear, historical data to show that many great minds which grew out of the shtetl refused to shed their Jewishness in order to achieve fame in the world at large. | | | In his cogent analysis, the author reveals the great personalities that blossomed in the cauldron of shtetl life, greats like The Baal Shem Tov, Y.I Peretz, Franz Rosenzweig, Januz Korczak, and many others. |
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http://www.devorapublishing.com/Wpages/BookSpecific/Wellspring3753.htm
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| | POLAND, CRACOW, CASIMIR, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU AND OŚWIĘCIM WITH A GUIDE. SHTETL. |
| | To bear this name a town needed to possess an intangible quality, a mixture of religion, philosophy, style of life, sum of beliefs and historical fate, altogether making this place something unique. | | | But a little town was by no means a Shtetl. | | | Linguistically the word Shtetl means a little town. |
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http://republika.pl/polin_travel/shtetl_en.html
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| | EPYC Places Shtetl |
| | The late-19th century brought tremendous upheaval and change to shtetl life. | | | Some shtetlekh were steeped in traditional religious Judaism, up until World War II, and others were fervent centers of secular thought, expression and organization. | | | Nevertheless, the shtetl was a quintessentially Jewish locale, and for that reason, after World War II it became the mythologized representation of the pre-destruction Jewish life of a bygone era. |
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http://epyc.yivo.org/content/8_1.php
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| | Eva Hoffman: Shtetl |
| | She reads its Yizkor book, a Jewish Book of Memory, written two years after World War II. | | | The solidity of the argument does not rescue "Shtetl" (the word means small town in Yiddish) from dryness and abstraction. | | | SHTETL, The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews |
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http://www.dialog.org/hist/hof.html
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| | eBay - Book: Shtetl (ISBN: 0395822955) |
| | Shtetl reconstructs the lost world of Polish Jewry up until its final days. | | | Hoffman writes about Jews in Poland, their history and their present situation, particularly in one small shtetl, the village of Bransk. | | | She explores its rich culture and institutions and looks at the forms of Polish-Jewish coexistence during several centuries, the shades of prejudice and tolerance, and the phases of conflict and comity. |
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http://product.ebay.com/Shtetl_ISBN_0395822955_W0QQfvcsZ1392QQsoprZ1092073
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| | j. - The eyes of the shtetl |
| | When Bibel began hearing from people all over the world who read them, he was convinced he should publish them in a book. | | | Then there was the sleepwalker, who walked around town in his nightgown, attracting people from neighboring towns just to see him. | | | The shtetl stories were first on the Internet, put there by Bibel’s son, Bennett. |
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http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/24313/format/html/displaystory.html
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| | FORWARD : FacesForward |
| | She recalls how, before her father was imprisoned by the Red Army, he instructed her to remember what had transpired — but never to forget that the meaning of Judaism is to "choose life." | | | The shtetl, said Eliach, "represents the greatness of Jewish life." | | | Spearheaded by Eliach and her organization, the Shtetl Foundation, Sunday's groundbreaking ceremony — attended by Israel's president, Moshe Katsav, and the former chief rabbi, Yisrael Meir Lau — marks the transition of Eliach's shtetl from concept to reality. |
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http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.06.06/faces.html
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| | JoyOfJewish.com Glossary |
| | First seen in Moses' transferring leadership of the Hebrews to Joshua just prior to entering the Holy Land, s'micha now refers to ordaining rabbis (where the laying on of hands is still performed). | | | The small towns of Eastern Europe where most Jews lived were called shtetls. | | | Life in the shtetl was hard — citizens were typically poor, and the towns were targeted for pogroms & in those often tight-knit communities, the Jews generally helped each other throughout their difficulties. |
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http://www.joyofjewish.com/gloss.html
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| | However, Jewish shtetl life does not exist there anymore. | | | Only a handful of elderly Jews live in Lyubar today. | | | We visited Lyubar, the former shtetl where Paul SHINDELMAN and his mother Malka Leah KARGER SHINDELMAN were born. |
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http://www.grapevine.org/kiev.htm
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| | From Shtetl to Chicken Soup |
| | These aspects of Jewish identity can be seen as the self-imposed parts of identity, although for those who choose to dissociate from the group the latter can be imposed by an outside influence, as Hitler clearly demonstrated. | | | It is important to note that Kallen does not believe that Jews had a nationality prior to the formation of the modern state of Israel. | | | Kallen follows the changes which occurred in Jewish identity from the shtetls of Eastern Europe and Russia to the third generation of Canadian Jews (roughly the descendants of those from the shtetls) in Toronto, Ontario. |
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http://humanities.uchicago.edu/journals/jsjournal/klopott.html
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| | Beth Tfiloh's Virtual Shtetl |
| | The following links of Jewish interest were the subject of the TorahQuest '97 workshop, Beyond the Shtetl: Surfing the Jewish Net, sponsored by Beth Tfiloh Congregation and Community School in celebration of Beth Tfiloh's 75th Anniversary. | | | "THE SHTETL CRIER" - Jewish and Israeli News sources | | | They can be used as a self-guided tour to explore the wealth of Jewish resources which are available on the Internet. |
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http://www.btfiloh.org/shtetl.htm
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| | Oxbow Books - The Shtetl: Image and Reality: Papers of the Second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish ... |
| | Oxbow Books - The Shtetl: Image and Reality: Papers of the Second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov | | | The different perspectives from which these studies view the shtetl trenchantly re-evaluate common preconceptions, misconceptions and assumptions, and offer new insights that are as challenging as they are informative. | | | There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what the shtetl was, how it functioned, and what tensions charged its existence. |
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http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm?ISBN=1900755416&Location=Oxbow
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| | Jankel's Shtetl - The Jewish Hamlet in Eastern Europe |
| | With the rise of the Zionist movement, and the foundation of the State of Israel, the Shtetl culture was pushed aside and rejected in the attempt to create a new breed of Jews - the Israeli Jew. | | | Gadi Jakob was born in 1947 in the city of Haifa, Israel. | | | The Shtetl - the Jewish hamlet - served as the heart of the Jewish life for several centuries. |
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http://www.mnemotrix.com/jankel
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| | 200 Years of History of the Shtetl Shumsk (Translation of1946 article) |
| | However, Jews there did not complain about the towns which made their shtetl unknown, as long as they could live there peacefully and draw their livelihood from all of the goods which mother earth brought them there. | | | The quiet waters which flowed there were a source of subsistence, but for the Jews of Shumsk the shtetl Shumsk had historical significance. | | | It found itself at the middle point between Kremenets and Ostrog. |
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http://www.sonic.net/~shumsker/shumsk/shumsk.relief.article.html
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| | Shtetl Life in Szczuczyn Up Until the Holocaust |
| | Letters written from Szczuczyn to the Szczuczyn Landsmen Society in Israel. | | | Born in Szczuczyn in 1910, she was an assimilated Jewish woman from a wealthy family who went to gymnasium in Vilna, Lithuania and then studied dentistry at the university in Nancy, France, before moving to Palestine in 1935, then to America in 1938. | | | Shtetl Life in Szczuczyn Up Until the Holocaust |
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http://www.szczuczyn.com/shtetllife.htm
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| | frontline: shtetl PBS |
| | The film captures these pilgrims as they face old neighbors, some who were betrayers, others who were saviors to the Jews of Bransk. | | | As a child, Marzynski escaped the Warsaw ghetto and was raised by Christians. | | | To commemorate National Holocaust Remembrance Week, FRONTLINE travels back in time to a family shtetl, a small village in Bransk, Poland, with producer Marian Marzynski. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl
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| | CD Baby: THE NEW SHTETL BAND, STEWART MENNIN: The New Shtetl Band |
| | The band takes its name from the small towns and ghettos, called shtetls, in which Jews lived from the middle ages until the middle of the 20th century. | | | The New Shtetl Klezmer Band epitomizes jewish soul. | | | This music has been central to people's lives and rituals for hundreds of years. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/shtetl
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| | Shtetls (Yiddish :shtetlach) found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of settlement in the Empire of Russia, Congres Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania. | | | A shtetl or shtetele-German: städtlein, meaning ("little town/city") was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population before WW II. | | | Publication, reproduction, use in advertising or for purpose of trade is prohibited without written permission |
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http://www.shtetl.info
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| | Shtetl: A film by Marian Marzynski |
| | ZbyszekRomaniuk comes to America and meets American Jews whose ancestors came from Bransk to build a new life on this shore.Bransk was home, they tell him.In America, Zbyszek is accepted. | | | The film starts when Marian Marzynski, the filmmaker accompanies Nathan Kaplan, a 70 year-oldJewish man from Chicago to Bransk, a smallPolish shtetl in Eastern Poland.It is here where their confrontation with the past begins.Throughout the film, several Holocaust survivors will make their way back to Bransk and share with us their stories. | | | And when we get there, we hope to meet a righteous man. |
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http://www.logtv.com/films/shtetl
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| | Jew Eat Yet?: Shtetl Reunion |
| | It turns out Jack’s parents were from Staszow and he has not only visited the town every year on a pilgrimage for his lost family members, he has single-handedly recovered many of the discarded headstones from the old Jewish cemetery in the shtetl and has had it rebuilt. | | | This is where my family lived for hundreds of years until my great-grandparents Itshe Meyer and Alta Toba Korolnek left in 1910 for a new life in Toronto, Canada. | | | I've spent hours on www.jewishgen.org seeking out possible family links and family shtetl links. |
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http://dannymiller.typepad.com/blog/2005/12/shtetl_reunion.html
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| | Shtetl - definition of Shtetl in Encyclopedia |
| | Shtetl (Shtetele) ("little city" in Yiddish) are small towns and villages with large Jewish populations, particularly found throughout the area of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (later, the Pale of Settlement of Russian Empire and Galicia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine) and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Shtetl
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| | The website is a memorial monument for the Jews who lived and died in the Shtetl Debica. | | | The website of a travelling exhibition Remembering Luboml: Images of a Jewish Community which offers a poignant glimpse of daily life in a shtetl representative of many others which were destroyed in World War II. | | | "The Road to the Shtetl and "Remember the Sabbath" two excerpts are taken from Life is With People: The Culture of the Shtetl by Mark Zbrowski & Elizabeth Herzog (New York: Schocken, 1973) |
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http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/web/pop_people/jews/jewish_heritage/shtetls/link.shtml
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| | A Simple Jew: A Picture From My Family's Shtetl |
| | Also Featured On This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | A Simple Jew: A Picture From My Family's Shtetl | | | Please let me know what you think of the idea. |
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http://asimplejew.blogspot.com/2005/06/picture-from-my-familys-shtetl.html
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| | Wired News: Net Captures Lost World of Shtetl |
| | Note: You are reading this message either because you can not see our css files (served from Lygo, a Lycos image server, for performance reasons), or because you do not have a standards-compliant browser. | | | Centropa -- the Internet home of a pioneering archive project called Witness to a Jewish Century -- aims to document everyday life in the shtetl, the Eastern European Jewish villages destroyed during the Holocaust. | | | Skip directly to: Search Box, Section Navigation, Content. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57204,00.html
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| | Shtetl page: Vitebsk |
| | `The majority of Jews (52.09%) is concentrated, obviously, in the cities and towns ["mestechki", shtetls] where almost all of the industry and trade is in their hands. | | | Shtetl Vitebsk, a Jewish town in the Russian empire | | | Age distribution of the Jews of Vitebsk gubernia: |
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http://www.physics.brocku.ca/~edik/Vitebsk
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| | Shtetl Studies; ISJM Bookstore |
| | From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry | | | Luboml: The Memorial Book of a Vanished Shtetl |
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http://www.isjm.org/bookstore/shtetl.htm
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| | israelinsider: Views: From shuttle diplomacy to shtetl mentality |
| | But whereas the process three decades ago was rightfully labeled "shuttle diplomacy," what is happening now is more akin to "shtetl diplomacy" as the sovereign government of the State of Israel begins to act more and more like a community council in charge of a 19th-century Eastern European Jewish village. | | | This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time." | | | Instead of placing the onus on the Palestinians, who resorted to the rifle and initiated the bloodshed, Bush is acting as if the two sides were equally to blame for the current predicament. |
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http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/2444.htm
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| | Shtetl Talk - maps and the Horodok video (#1) |
| | I viewed it again and was astonished to see some of the same footage, much less of the benefactor pouring milk, and more scenes of Gorodok. | | | Above, carrying back home water for the day. | | | Another video -- about presumably the wrong Gorodok -- came to mind. |
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http://www.cousinsplus.com/families/CousinsPlus/shtetl-talk/shtetl-talk-1.htm
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| | New York Architecture Images- SEARCH- lower east side |
| | Macfarlane, the area has remained almost a holy land in memory, an old country to return to. | | | If a Jewish equivalent to Little Italy remains in Manhattan — Little Shtetl, say — it is probably the two-block stretch of Essex Street between East Broadway and Grand Street, where half a dozen stores carry signs with Hebrew lettering. | | | But even as recently as a few years ago, a person walking the streets of the Lower East Side could sense the collective memory of a tangible past, helped along by the few Jewish businesses that survived. |
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http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LES/LES.htm
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| | Jewish Genealogy Books Available Through Avotaynu |
| | Some 77 selections from yizkor books that describe daily life in the shtetl before the Holocaust. | | | Roots of more than 1,200 Jewish given names showing Yiddish/Hebrew variants with English transliteration. |
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http://www.avotaynu.com/allbooks.htm
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| | Joe Kubert: From Shtetl to Grand Master - Part Two |
| | In 1938, as the strange visitor from another planet made his first appearance on ours, Joe Kubert wasn’t even a bar-mitzvah yet. | | | Joe Kubert: From Shtetl to Grand Master - Part Two |
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http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/masters/111786612080097.htm
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