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.]] ( Liuboml' , Luboml) near Kovel' , Russian Volhynia , around 1900 . We can see the German and yiddish letter "Volks Küche/folqs-kikh".]] postcard depicting typical shtetl street scene in Poland]] , Ukraine .]] HISTORY History of the oldest Eastern European shtetls began about a millennium ago and saw periods of relative tolerance and prosperity as well as times of extreme poverty, hardships and Pogrom s. The May Laws introduced by Tsar Alexander III Of Russia in 1882 banned Jews from rural areas and towns of less than ten thousand people. In the 20th Century revolutions, civil wars, industrialization and the Holocaust destroyed traditional shtetl existence. However, Hasidic Jews have founded new communities in the United States, such as Kiryas Joel and New Square . SHTETLS (LISTED BY PRESENT-DAY COUNTRY) Poland :: Note: Towns formerly in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia are marked with "(G)".
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SHTETL IN FICTION AND FOLKLORE Chelm figures prominently in the Jewish humor as the legendary town of fools. Kasrilevke, the setting of many of Sholom Aleichem 's stories, and Anatevka, the setting of the Musical '' Fiddler On The Roof '' (based on other stories of Sholom Aleichem) are other notable fictional shtetls. The 2002 novel '' Everything Is Illuminated '', by Jonathan Safran Foer , tells a fictional story set in the Ukrainian shtetl Trachimbrod . SHTOTS (LARGER TOWNS WITH SIGNIFICANT PRE-WAR JEWISH POPULATIONS)
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