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 ...

But 50 Jews remain, maintaining a typical shtetl synagogue with board floors. In Belarus, the city of Babruysk also boasts a well-preserved former shtetl, though most of its Jewish population of ...

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 ...