Search results for "Shtetl" - New World Encyclopedia

In Kabbalah and European Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is a spirit of a dead person that attaches itself to a person on earth. The word "dybbuk ...

Abraham and Leah Sarnoff. He was born in Uzliany shtetl near Minsk, Russia (now in Belarus) to a poor Jewish family. Given the limited opportunities ...

of Bilgoraj, a traditional Jewish village or shtetl, where his mother's brothers had followed his grandfather as rabbis. When his father became ...

(about 1740) to expound his teachings in the shtetl of Medzhybizh. Many people, mostly from the spiritual elite, came to listen to him. Medzhybizh became ...

Shayne. 2009. Remember Us: My Journey from the Shtetl through the Holocaust. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1602397231. * Spitz, Vivien. 2005. ...

4, 1919, and January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi shtetl of Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Mahilyow Province, Republic of Belarus) to Anna Rachel Berman ...