BLOOMINGBURG, N.Y. (JTA) – This is how you launch a Hasidic shtetl in 21st-century America. Step 1. Find a place within reasonable distance of Brooklyn where the land is cheap and underdeveloped.

The fake Jewish town is the backdrop for a potentially controversial movie on the 1941 murder of local Jews by their neighbors and the Nazis. (JTA) — In the woods of northern Ukraine ...

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 ...

And my next film that is just finished, I was making it during the same time more or less as SHTETL. It has a very different mood. It's called THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG KIMOTO. A: I actually visited ...

We take you into the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan to visit what is said to be the last living shtetl in the world outside ...

Enroll Your Son in an Adventurous, Farming, Outdoorsy, Hands-on Camp.

The film, called Kerl fun sofek in Yiddish, is set in an 18th-century Polish shtetl during the beginnings of the Hasidic movement. Hadassah (Elizabeth Connick), a young woman in late pregnancy ...

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 ...

Juif polonais ayant survecu a l'Holocauste, le realisateur accompagne Nathan, juif americain de soixante-dix ans, sur les traces de sa famille originaire de Bransk, en Pologne.

Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet’s South Beach 1977-1980 is a project of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU and the family of Andy ...