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A Soviet Shtetl
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Like every shtetl Medzibosz has a main street, and side streets and back streets. Nowadays the old hunched little huts have mostly vanished, and there are new houses in their place—not everywhere. Thi…

Contributor:

Shmuel Gordon

Places:

Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1966

Subjects:

Shtetl, Cities, Social justice, Poverty, Modernity

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
The Organization of the Jewish Proletariat in Russia
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Anyone arriving from Western Europe by steamship to Mohilev for the first time will be struck on the dock by nothing as much as by the enormous throng of…

Contributor:

Sara Rabinowitsch

Places:

Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Class, Rebellion, Human rights, Jewish identity, Poverty

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Reportage