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    Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust...
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  • Shtetl is a 1996 American documentary film that was produced and directed by Marian Marzynski. The film aired April 17, 1996 on the Frontline series on...
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    the author of the blog "Shtetl-Optimized". In the interview to Scientific American he answers why his blog is called shtetl-optimized, and about his...
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  • Shtetl: Haredi Free Press is a media outlet founded in 2023 to cover the Haredi Jewish community. Naftuli Moster, founder and former executive director...
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  • A Khasene in Shtetl (Yiddish for A Wedding in the Village / A Village Wedding, also called A Shtetl Wedding / A Wedding in the Shtetl; Yiddish: אַ חתונה...
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    The Virtual Shtetl (Polish: Wirtualny Sztetl) is a bilingual Polish-English portal of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, devoted to the...
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    Madagascar Plan Nisko Plan Forced euthanasia (Action T4) Aftermath Depopulated shtetls Holocaust survivors Sh'erit ha-Pletah Bricha List Postwar violence Nazis...
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    evoke nostalgic or romantic attitudes. The term is also used to describe a Shtetl, a pre-Holocaust Eastern European Jewish town. Within Israel, established...
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    Es brent (redirect from Undzer shtetl brent)
    brent (עס ברענט "It's burning", also known as אונדזער שטעטל ברענט undzer shtetl brent "our town is burning", in Hebrew translation העיירה בוערת) is a Yiddish...
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  • This list of shtetls and shtots (eastern European towns and cities with significant pre-Holocaust Jewish populations) is organized by country. Some villages...
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    Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Virtual Shtetl. "History of the Frysztak shtetl". Virtual Shtetl. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Retrieved...
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    Protocol, Nuremberg)." Browning (1998), p. 12. "Białystok – History". Virtual Shtetl Museum of the History of Polish Jews. p. 6, paragraph #3. According to records...
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    Mielcu". Virtual Shtetl. Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich. Retrieved 2013-04-08. "Obóz pracy przymusowej w Wieliczce". Virtual Shtetl. Muzeum Historii Żydów...
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    cultural heritage - Shtetl Routes - Theater NN". shtetlroutes.eu (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 December 2022. "Deliatyn - guidebook - Shtetl Routes - Theater...
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  • of predominant Jewish population the latter is sometimes translated as shtetl).[citation needed] In South Africa under apartheid, the term "township"...
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    Voivodeship. Municipality home page Jewish Community in Maków Podhalański on Virtual Shtetl Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maków Podhalański. v t e...
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    Archived from the original on April 15, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2021. "Shtetl by the Sea: Jewish Landmarks of Miami Beach". Visitflorida.com. May 30,...
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    Retrieved 21 February 2015. "Urząd Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego - Virtual Shtetl". sztetl.org.pl. Retrieved 9 July 2018. Rummel, R. J. (1997). Statistics...
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    immigration to Palestine from Europe. Nehemiah was born Nehemiah Rubitzov in the shtetl Sydorovychi near Ivankiv in the southern Pale of Settlement (present-day...
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    period, the majority of Jews in Austria–Hungary lived in small towns (shtetls) in Galicia and rural areas in Hungary and Bohemia; however, they had large...
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  • challenge of marrying off his five daughters amidst the growing tension in his shtetl. The cast also features Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann...
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    Community in Kraków Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine on Virtual Shtetl Kraków, Poland at JewishGen Map: Kraków Heritage Under Threat Archived 8...
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    memorial to the life of the shtetl while experiencing a strange pull to create other themes that did not adhere to the "shtetl brand". He experimented with...
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    May 11, 1888, in the Russian Empire. Although his family came from the shtetl of Tolochin (Yiddish: טאָלאָטשין; today Talachyn, Талачын, in Belarus),...
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  • starring Moshe Lobel and Saul Rubinek. The film depicts the lives of a Jewish shtetl on the eve of Operation Barbarossa. It was filmed in Ukraine six months...
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    Jewish Committee to sponsor a project to study European Jewish villages, shtetls, in which a team of researchers would conduct mass interviews with Jewish...
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  • An Eastern Ashkenazic family living in the Shtetl of Romanivka, circa 1905...
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  • 52°26′00″N 024°40′00″E / 52.43333°N 24.66667°E / 52.43333; 24.66667, 252.7 kilometres (157.0 miles) SW of Minsk. It was formerly a Jewish shtetl. v t e...
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  • Little-Town in Eastern Europe", it was later changed to "The Culture of the Shtetl" when released in paperback in the early 1960s. The book originated from...
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    Yvija; Polish: Iwje; Yiddish: איוויע, romanized: Ivye) is a town and former shtetl in Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Iwye...
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