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THEMES - Communities/ shtetl life



(Under construction. Over time I will add more relevant links and a bibliography.)


Links & online articles:

Shtetl Economic History Project
Project intended "to enhance the historical understanding of life in the shtetl".

JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy
Contains an incredible amount of genealogical information on Eastern Europe.

Jewries in Galicia and Bukovina, in Lemberg and Czernowitz. Two divergent examples of Jewish communities in the far east of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
Article by Albert Lichtblau and Michael John.