(For those not conversant with Yiddish in general and the word shtetl in particular, it’s just as it sounds: a tiny state – or more like a large village – a universal Jewish phenomenon found ...

They also declined to share with JTA photos producers had given out ... Babruysk also boasts a well-preserved former shtetl, though most of its Jewish population of several hundred do not live ...

We take you into the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan to visit what is said to be the last living shtetl in the world outside ...

a Polish shtetl (now in Lithuania) where she had helped in her grandmother’s bustling photography studio taking portraits of the Jewish villagers. After immigrating to the U.S. and becoming a ...