10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHTETELACH»
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shtetelach in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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You know Tochter (Daughter), most of the Jews in Russia lived in shtetelach (
small Jewish towns) where everyone was Jewish and everyone spoke Yiddish.
From the description of the town from which Al's family came, it was a fairly large
one ...
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The Authentic Jew and His Judaism: An Analysis of the Basic ...
The Jews in the ghettos and shtetelach observed a separate style of living of their
own, with its distinctive tone, aroma, tempo, flavor. Even if certain individuals did
not accept the basic religious convictions, group cohesiveness carried them ...
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The Maggid Speaks: Favorite Stories and Parables of Rabbi ...
The tradition of the Maggid the speaker, storyteller, and profound ethicist has been best exemplified by Rabbi Shalom Schwadron, the great Maggid of Jerusalem. This book captures his eloquence and humor.
Paysach J. Krohn, Shalom Mordekhai Shvadron (ha-Kohen.),
1987
(I myself am rather heavily bearded, and I have friends who draw sinister
conclusions from the fact that I never wear open-toed sandals). In the small
shtetelach of the Pale of Settlement, nearly everyone had a goat, if only because
the family ...
Sammy Levenson. SONSJZND ^DAUGHTERS When the old fol\s hit these
shores they had to ma\e a considerable adjustment to American customs.
Coming as most of them did from shtetelach {small towns) into great American
cities they ...
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The stories of eight families: Rechtman, Hoffman, Lewenson, ...
... Although the exact location is not known, I suspect one of the small Shtetelach
outside Lomza was the origin of the family. Until the 1840s Jews were not
allowed to reside within the city of Lomza and most resided at small
establishments ...
... which American traditionalists have come to expect as the result of the 1923-19
^0 series of recordings made in the white and Negro south. Apparently there was
no RCA, Columbia, Vocalion, Brunswick or Decca to mine the shtetelach of ...
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Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-day ...
As he goes from town to town in Ukraine, Bartov describes the landscapes of Jewish life and death: cemeteries, synagogues, schools, killing fields, and neighborhoods. The book is also personal-about his search for his family's past.
Short novels by Aleichem, Aksenfeld, and Moykher-Sforim, stories by Peretz, Rabbi Nahkman, and Der Nister, religious writings, and Hassidic yarns depict Jewish life in the shtetl from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Reprint.
Joachim Neugroschel,
2007
This book gives a comprehensive accounting of the cities, towns, and fortresses of Khazaria, and features a timeline summarizing key events in Khazar history.