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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: 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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    cultural heritage - Shtetl Routes - Theater NN". shtetlroutes.eu (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 December 2022. "Deliatyn - guidebook - Shtetl Routes - Theater...
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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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    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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  • An Eastern Ashkenazic family living in the Shtetl of Romanivka, circa 1905...
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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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  • "middlebrow" and superficial; Philip Roth, writing in The New Yorker, called it shtetl kitsch. For example, it portrays the local Russian officer as sympathetic...
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    Трохимбрід (Trokhymbrid), Hebrew: טרוכנברוד, was an exclusively Jewish shtetl – a small town, with an area of 1,728 acres (6.99 km2) – located in the...
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    father's family came from the Polish part of Galicia, mainly from the then shtetl of Frysztak. Her parents own Premium Plywood Products, a wholesale plywood...
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    miserable appearance. Several successful negotiations allow Israel to leave the shtetl, and Ada takes up painting. Mrs. Mimi, an old Parisian woman who teaches...
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    Академике. Retrieved 15 September 2014. Cnaan Liphshiz. (2013). "Jewish shtetl in Azerbaijan survives amid Muslim majority." Accessed at November 12, 2013...
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    Commons has media related to Niepołomice. Official website Summary (in English) of Niepołomice Jewish Community in Niepołomice on Virtual Shtetl v t e...
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  • eradicated town of Trochenbrod (Trachimbrod), a real exclusively Jewish shtetl in Poland before the Holocaust where the author's grandfather was born....
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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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  • FRONTLINE include Never Forget to Lie (2013), A Jew Among the Germans (2005), Shtetl (1996), After Gorbachev's USSR (1992), Betting on the Lottery (1990), My...
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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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    (in Polish) (in Polish) http://www.nasz-radom.pl/ Radom photo gallery (in Polish) Jewish Community in Radom on Virtual Shtetl Radom, Poland at JewishGen...
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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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