shtetl

Filmmakers constructed an acre-sized shtetl for a Ukrainian WWII film. Now they want to preserve it as a museum.

The fake Jewish town is the backdrop for a potentially controversial movie on the 1941 murder of local Jews by their neighbors and the Nazis.

Clarice Lispector, Brazil’s Beloved Writer, Was Born in a Russian Shtetl

The modernist Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector is widely hailed as one of the greatest Latin American writers of the 20th century. What you wouldn’t guess from that fact is that she was born Chaya Lispector in a Russian shtetl. The youngest daughter of Pinkhas and Mania, Lispector had come out from the shadow of pogroms, during […]

State of the art Jewish museum to open outside a former shtetl in Lithuania

The museum, slated to open in 2019 and designed by the architects of Warsaw’s award-winning POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will be part of the “Lost Shtetl” memorial complex located in and around the small town of Šeduva.