#shtetl — Public Fediverse posts

"ECHOING THEMES FOUND throughout #Jewish #American #fiction, Anna Reader, the protagonist of #ElaineElinson’s new #novel #RadiantastheStars, has moved with her family to #Chicago from their native #Pavolitch (today #Pavoloch), a #shtetl in the #Russian Empire’s #Ukraine, to escape the region’s recent #pogroms. At the novel’s opening in 1911, however, twentysomething Anna is making the reverse journey back to Ukraine to help her cousin and other Jewish comrades usher in the revolution.

As #Elinson #writes in her #author’s note, the novel is based on events in her grandmother’s life."

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/radiant-stars-elaine-elinson-jewish-ukraine-russian-empire/

I may have linked to it already at some point, but I really love this set of Stempenyu book illustrations by Anatoly Kaplan, which I was lucky to find an old Soviet bilingual edition at a used bookstore here years ago.
https://www.bac.org.il/en/exhibitions/?ExhibitionID=17949

#shtetl #lithograph #klezmer

#Analysts really need to #Shtetl regularly on how to present the current moment with some sliver of hope regarding better outcomes. The first responsibility has always been presentation of the raw, unadulterated truth…
We have ,at this time, close to 8 and 1/3 billion souls on board. Carrying capacity of planet #Earth is taking some extreme hits, with likely two and a half billion facing threat to subsistence for the duration. Geopolitical instabilities endanger at least another…

tickets have gone on sale for the event I've been working on preparing for a year, the Vancouver Peretz Centre's 80th anniversary banquet on May 23rd. I've been helping bring to life co-director Itamar's idea of a shtetl wedding themed gala, along with award-winning writer Jess Goldman and music arrangements by me🤓there are limited low cost tickets that will probably go fast if price is an issue.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/peretzs-80th-anniversary-a-wedding-between-peretz-and-the-past-present-and-future

#klezmer #Yiddish #SecularJewishCulture #shtetl #anniversary #Vancouver

Architecture of Memory: Exploring (Post-) Jewish Spaces in Eastern Europe
Natalia Romik (Author)
Series: Design Research in Architecture
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/architecture-of-memory/
#OpenAccess #Architecture #shtetl #JewishHistory #EasternEurope #WorldWar2 #ArchitecturalHistory

#NewOpening | On September 20, 2025 The Lost Shtetl Museum in Šeduva welcomes visitors to discover the history of Jewish life in Lithuania | Details:

Lost Shtetl Museum | jewish history museum lithuania

#shtetl #jewsineasterneurope #lithuania #museum

Illustration by Issachar Ber Ryback, from Mayn horever heym : a gedekhenish (1922).

Source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/423ffe87-d878-4279-a0e3-11c739650be8

#judaism #ukraine #shtetl #yiddish #jewish #movement #pogroms #art #publicdomain

#Montreal folks, I highly recommend this production which is playing at Quai des Brumes on Sept 21. I saw it here in Vancouver a few months ago and it's great, a very thoughtful reimagining of Jewish folklore to comment on how we engage with the past & heritage today. Live music with crankie and dramatic narration!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/magid-ensemble-presents-shterna-the-lost-voice-montreal-tickets-1631850571989?aff=oddtdtcreator

#klezmer #theatre #Yiddish #folklore #shtetl

📖 Tevye the Dairyman & Motl the Cantor's Son 📚

As a big fan of Fiddler on the Roof, I decided I should read the original Tevye stories. First published in 1894, Tevye 'tells' Aleichem the tales of his family, focusing on six of his seven daughters, Tzeitel, Chava, Hodel, Shprintze, Taybele, and Bielke. I was surprised by how different these tales proved to be from musical.
But the highlight here is the delightful adventures of the 'orphan' Motl in Aleichem's unfinished novel Motl and the Cantor's Son. These tales take us on the journey from poverty in the Shtetl, across Europe to the promise land of America. Motls' take on life is endearing and funny. I am amazed that these stories have never made it to film!

#tevyethedairyman #motlthecantorsson #shalomaleichem #fiddlerontheroof #tevye #tevyeandhisdaughters #books #book #mybookshelf #mybooklist #reading #booklist #readinglist #livre #buch #libro #libros #novel #novela #livres #bücher #judaica #shtetllife #shtetl

"Seventy of these acrylic #paintings are the subject of a new exhibition titled “(post)#JEWISH… #Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt” at Warsaw’s POLIN #Museum of the #History of #Polish #Jews.

Kirshenblatt painted from memory: the synagogue, men washing in the mikvah ritual bathhouse, the cemetery, townspeople, school scenes including a pupil being flogged by a teacher, an illicit cigarette factory, the illegal slaughter of a cow, bagel sellers, a water-carrier, circus performers.

There were no forbidden subjects. One painting depicts a visibly pregnant bride at her wedding, and another features the town’s two prostitutes, Jaźdka and Świderka."

https://notesfrompoland.com/2024/06/03/new-exhibition-shows-jewish-life-in-polish-shtetl-before-the-holocaust/

"When the curtain came down on another day, he always needed a little while to remember he wasn’t Jakub Shlayfer, a hungry Jew in a Polish village that had vanished from the map more than a hundred years ago."

- Harry Turtledove in #OtherCovenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People.

Launching next week!! Over 400 pages of Jewish speculative literature!

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/

#Jewish #Mazeldon #SFF #AlternateHistory #Fantasy #HistoricalFantasy #Shtetl

Nov 18 2022, this Friday, part of the Bard Graduate Center "Threads of Power" exhibition: free livestream talks on #lace and #lacemakers. 9:30am NYC time.

#beeralu #SriLanka #Brazil #Armenia #NeedleLace #textile #TextileHistory #BobbinLace #Shtetl @bobbinlace

https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/1403/18-nov-2022-making-lace

#streetart #StreetExpression #paris

Collage d'inspiration cabbalistique, enfin je suppose, pile en face de la synagogue de la rue Pavée, au milieu de ce qui fut le #shtetl du #marais jusqu'au début du 21ème.