Shtetl

Shtetl(Shtetele) ("little city" in Yiddish) are small towns and villages with large Jewish populations, particularly found throughout the area of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (later, the Pale of Settlement of Russian Empire and Galicia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine) and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Big cities like Lemberg, Czernowitz are "shtot".

Famous Communities

Shtots

• Sankt Peterburg(Russia)
• Riga(Russian Livonia - today Latvia) [1] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=291&letter=R)
• Kovno(Kaunas)(Lithuania)
• Vilna(Vilnius) [2] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=194&letter=W)
• Brest(Lithuania - today Belarus) [3] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1460&letter=B)
• Minsk
• Pinsk
• Warsaw(Poland)
• Krakow(Galicia)
• Lemberg(Galicia)
• Czernowitz(Bukovina)
• Königsberg
• Danzig
• Posen
• Breslau
• Glogau
• Prague
• Vienna(Austria)
• Budapest(Hungary)
• Cluj
• Odessa(Russia, today Ukraine) [4] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=23&letter=O)
• Chisinau
• Iasi(Romania)

Shtetls

• Jurbarkas
• pl:Lubawicz(Belarus)
• Grodno
• Slonim
• Vitebsk
• Obech, Belarus
• Belz(Galicia - today Ukraine)
• Brody(Galicia - today Ukraine)
• Zolochiv
• Lutsk
• Kalush, Ukraine
• pl:Sadagóra
• Ruzhin
• Tarascha
• pl:Czortków
• pl:Buczacz
• pl:Luniniec
• Braslaw
• pl:Drohobycz
• Kalush
• Starokonstantinov([5] (http://sk.vlasenko.net/) [6] (http://www.glavbolgarstroy.com/eng/prj0_0_4.html))
• Tarnopol
• pl:Berdyczów(Berdichev)
• Gura Humorului

External link

• JewishGen (http://www.jewishgen.org/)
  • The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker (http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/)
  • ShtetLinks (http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/)
• Galicia - JewishEncyclopedia (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=30&letter=G)
• Cities of Poland - Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online (http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t036/t03605.html)
• The Art of Dora Shampanier (http://www.my-synagogue.com/about3.html)
• Towns in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (http://www.avotaynu.com/books/encytowns.htm)
• [7] (http://www.kav-wien.at/arbeit/galizien.htm) [8] (http://www.hagalil.com/jct/ukraine/ukraine-2000.htm) [9] (http://www.jewishwebindex.com/polish_shtetls.htm) [10] (http://www.zchor.org/hitachdut/pinkas1.htm) [11] (http://www.zchor.org/hitachdut/pinkas7.htm) [12] (http://members.core.com/~mikerose/history.html) [13] (http://sk.vlasenko.net/wallpaper/)

• Jewish Communities(*)
• Diaspora [14] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=329&letter=D)

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