24 January 2026 from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Maison de la Culture Yiddish This day offers a chance to immerse yourself in the world of the shtetl, its characters, both real and imagined, ...
At the Jewish Museum Oslo This exhibition gives visitors a better understanding of the origins of Jewish migration to Norway at the turn of the 20th century. What were the countries of origin and ...
Until 16 December 2023 at the Polin Museum The works of Mayer Kirshenblatt provide a better understanding of the life of a child in the shtetl on the eve of the Second World War. The exhibition ...
21 February 2023 at the University of Michigan, USA Sasha Senderovich presents his new book How the Soviet Jew was Made (Harvard University Press, 2022). In it, the scholar analyses how Russian ...
Until February 26th, 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Augsburg This exhibition traces the diversity of Jewish life in Ukraine over the last hundred years. From the shtetl life of the 1920s and the ...
The first Jews probably settled in Mir in the 17th century. On the eve of the Second World War, 2400 members of the community lived there, half of the city’s population. A famous Lithuanian ...
The terrifying war against Ukraine changes, of course, the function of these pages devoted to the Jewish cultural heritage of that country. Many of the places mentioned were razed to the ground ...
In the nineteenth century, more than 70% of Slonim’s population was Jewish. The ratio was 53% before the war. The ghetto was burned down between 29 June and 15 July 1942. At the ...
The first city across the Polish border, Brest is located on the right bank of the Bug River. Its name evokes the famous Brest-Litovsk Treaty of April 1918, whereby Trotsky’s Red Army put ...
The city of Bobruysk was once a typical Belarusian shtetl. In 1897, 20,759 Jews lived here (60.5% of the population), while in 1926, the Jewish community had a population of 21,558 (42%). To form ...
From Bialystok, a detour toward Tykocin is imperative: it has effectively preserved the structure and architecture of an old shtetl. This town, tiny today, was in times past more important than ...
Located on the bank of the Ner, a tributary of the Warta in the region the Germans called Wartheland, Chelmno is where “gas trucks” were tested beginning 1941, an early form of ...
The Jewish presence in Zurich probably dates back to the 13th century. During the Middle Ages, as in many other cities in the region, the situation of the Jews varied between reception, ...
The last real shtetl in western Europe, Antwerp is known for its Orthodox Jews and its diamonds industry. Barely twenty years ago, approximately 80% of Antwerp’s Jewish population used to ...
The visitor to Eastern Europe hoping to discover a rich Jewish architectural heritage must remember that what was once the center of Judaic cultural and religious life in Europe -principally in ...