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The Hit of the Century
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The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…

Contributor:

Psoy Korolenko

Places:

Moscow, Russia

Date:

2003

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Shtetl, Modernity, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics, Literature
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