Other new fiction draws on the shtetl as a symbol of Jewish bona fides: in Thane Rosenbaum’s "The Golems of Gotham," the protagonist’s 13-year-old daughter, a violin prodigy, enraptures crowds ...

Rather, as Bauer points out, the facts of life in the shtetl included “the degrading poverty, the religious fanaticism, the authoritarian oligarchies that ruled over most, if not all of these ...

There is a perception that Jewish poverty is an oxymoron. ... “but the 50-year journey from the shtetl to the Space Age left many casualties in its wake. ...

BERSHAD, Ukraine — At first glance, this drab town 160 miles south of Kiev seems nearly identical to the settlements that dot the poverty-stricken district of Vinnitsa.Shrouded in a seemingly ...

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In parallel, the shtetl-state’s ambassadors are also demanding that women’s studies at Haredi post-secondary institutions (“seminars”) of paramedical subjects such as art therapy, be ...

The founder and editor-in-chief of Shtetl is Naftuli Moster, a 37 year-old activist-turned-journalist.Moster says the website will show that, just like those small Jewish villages, the Haredi ...

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The intense scrubbing and cleaning of homes to prepare for Passover was a little different in the shtetl. Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916-2009), who was born and raised in Opatow (Apt), described in ...