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“Shtetls” is a category for books that evoke, document, or imagine the world of the Eastern European Jewish small town—market communities in the Pale of Settlement (in present-day Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, and beyond) from the 18th century through their destruction in the Holocaust. It includes fiction, memoir, history, and ethnography that explore daily life, faith and scholarship, Yiddish language and folklore, trades and family structures, relations with non-Jewish neighbors, pressures of modernity, antisemitism and pogroms, migration, and the work of memory. From classic Yiddish storytelling to contemporary works of remembrance, these books preserve the textures, humor, resilience, and moral complexity of a largely vanished civilization.

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