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    Shtetl or shtetel (English: /ˈʃtɛtəl/ SHTET-əl; Yiddish: שטעטל, romanized: shtetl, pronounced [ʃtɛtl̩]; pl. שטעטעלעך shtetelekh) is a Yiddish term for...
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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 Lost Shtetl Museum, also known as Šeduva Jewish Museum "The Lost Shtetl" is a privately owned museum of Jewish history. The museum tells about the...
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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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  • American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York is a 2022 book by Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, published by...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Frysztak Ghetto was created in the Polish shtetl of Frysztak during World War II by Nazi Germany and existed until 18 August 1942, when it was liquidated...
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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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    currently a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he has written the Deep Shtetl newsletter since 2021. Formerly a senior writer at Tablet magazine, he covers...
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    Lithuanian Black-Headed sheep. The Lost Shtetl Museum – a privately funded museum of the history of Jewish towns (shtetls) that is going to open in September...
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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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    Iwye is a town and former shtetl in Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Iwye District. It is located 158 kilometres (98 mi)...
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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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    served as the administrative center of Uzlyany selsoviet. It was formerly a shtetl with a large Jewish population. Eugene Lyons (1898–1985), American journalist...
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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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    village outside of Israel and the United States, and the last surviving shtetl. The hexagonal synagogue is located in the Qırmızı Qəsəbə of Quba District...
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    Трохимбрід (Trokhymbrid), Yiddish: טראָכענבראָד, 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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    towns in Poland" Archived 2016-02-08 at the Wayback Machine by Virtual Shtetl Museum of the History of the Polish Jews  (in English), as well as "Getta...
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  • 7 kilometres (157.0 miles) southwest of Minsk. It was formerly a Jewish shtetl. Nazvy naselenykh punktaŭ Rėspubliki Belarusʹ: Brėstskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, narmatyŭny...
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    Ignatówka, also Lozisht, was a Jewish shtetl (village) located in what is now western Ukraine but which used to be part of the Second Polish Republic before...
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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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    Goes an Actor (1945) was republished in 2010 under the new title, From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor (Transaction Publishers)...
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  • Kasrilevka (category Shtetls)
    Kasrilevka or Kasrilevke (Yiddish: כתרילעווקע) is a fictional shtetl introduced by Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem. Located "exactly in the middle of that...
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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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    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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  • 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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