Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Lubavitch Camp in Crown Heights toured Goblet Wine, the boutique winery founded by Yanky Drew, a ...

THE WEDDING JESTER traces the history of Jewish comedy from the weddings of the old country to the Borscht Belt. It ...

The Yiddish writer's lost masterpiece, Sons and Daughters, brought back to life, in all its humor and beauty, the Jewish shtetl of his youth. Chaim Grade in Vilne, Lithuania, 1945.(From the ...

Thus the village fool, a famous figure in shtetl life and lore, entertains the German invaders so as not to be killed himself and perhaps to spare his fellow villagers who are abused and ...

Eighty four years ago more than 600 Jews – men, women and children – of the shtetl of Seduva in rural Lithuania were executed in the forest outside the town. Now the finishing touches are being made ...

Eliach, who created the Tower of Life at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is probably best know for her book There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok.

But two young photographers made a project of capturing life in the South Beach shtetl, and their work has been revived in a new book of photography, “Shtetl in the Sun,” and a documentary ...

The story of how the population of a Jewish shtetl in Poland was wiped out in the Holocaust.

Board of Shtetl, news site covering haredi Orthodoxy, resigns after founder renounces mission “The need for such a news source remains urgent,” the three board members wrote.

Inspired by the Coens' "A Serious Man," a Jewish Film Series takes up residence at Oak Street Cinema.