Shabbat Service and Cultural Program -Not Tevye’s Shtetl

The Real Story of our Ancestral Towns and What’s Happening There Today

Most Jews around the world can trace their roots to small towns in Eastern Europe. Before they made the leap to a big shtot (city), they lived for centuries in shtetls. These places have become shrouded in myth and clouded by memories. Join us for an adventure into the real stories of the towns where our ancestors fell in love, experienced frustration, and tried to get ahead. At the end, we’ll talk about what remains of these hallowed places and what’s being done to preserve Jewish heritage in places where Jews are absent.

Zachary Mazur earned his PhD at Yale University where he studied under Prof. Timothy Snyder. He’s the author of numerous articles and will soon publish a book on Jews, Ukrainians and Poles in Poland’s economy during the 1920s-30s. He is currently the Senior Historian at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

You can browse images from the Polin Museum here: https://polin.pl/en/dla-mediow/museum-photos-and-logos

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