BLOOMINGBURG, N.Y. (JTA) – This is how you launch a Hasidic shtetl in 21st-century America. Step 1. Find a place within reasonable distance of Brooklyn where the land is cheap and underdeveloped.

and yet internally, Israel acts more like a shtetl than a state. (For those not conversant with Yiddish in general and the word shtetl in particular, it’s just as it sounds: a tiny state – or ...

We want to draw your attention to a range of material concerning response to FRONTLINE's broadcast of "SHTETL" produced by Marian Marzynski. The debate and literature about "SHTETL" has grown in ...

“Here, recovered and recorded at the last conceivable moment, is the living shtetl, those market towns large and small that were once home to the majority of Jews in the world: a bucolic landscape ...