A shtetl or shtetele ("little town/city" in Yiddish language) was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: shtetlach) were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia, and Romania. A larger city, like Lemberg or Czernowitz, was called a shtot.

Famous communities

Traditional names are given, with present-day names and localisations in parentheses.

Shtots

• Breslau (Wrocław, Poland)
• Brest, or Brisk (Belarus) [1]
• Budapest (Hungary)
• Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
• Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
• Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland)
• Glogau (Głogów, Poland)
• Iaşi (Romania)
• Kiev, Ukraine
• Kishinev (Chişinău, Moldova)
• Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania)
• Königsberg (Kaliningrad, today in Russia)
• Kraków (Poland)
• Lemberg (L'viv, Ukraine)
• Minsk (Belarus)
• Odessa (Ukraine) [2]
• Pinsk (Belarus)
• Posen (Poznań, Poland)
• Prague (Czech Republic)
• Riga (Latvia) [3]
• Vienna (Austria)
• Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) [4]
• Warsaw (Poland)

Shtetls

• Jurbarkas
• Jedwabne
• Lubawicz (Belarus)
• Grodno
• Slonim
• Vitebsk
• Obech, Belarus
• Belz (Galicia - today Ukraine)
• Brody (Galicia - today Ukraine)
• Bratslav
• Zolochiv
• Lutsk
• Kalush, Ukraine
• Sadagóra
• Ruzhin
• Tarascha
• Czortków
• Buczacz
• Luniniec
• Drohobycz
• Ger
• Kalush
• Starokonstantinov ([5] [6])
• Tarnopol
• Berdyczów (Berdichev, Volhynia - today Ukraine)
• Zhytomyr (Volhynia - today Ukraine)
• Gura Humorului
• Staszow
• Gombin (Poland) ([7])

See also

• Jewish diaspora
• History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
• History of the Jews in Bessarabia
• History of the Jews in Carpathian Ruthenia
• History of the Jews in Poland
• History of the Jews in Germany
• List of European cities with alternative names

External links

• JewishGen
  • The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker
  • ShtetLinks
• Galicia, Diaspora - Jewish Encyclopedia
• Cities of Poland - Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online
• The Art of Dora Shampanier
• Towns in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Life
  • http://www.aforgottenodyssey.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album07&page=1(photo albums)
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