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Lost Shtetl Museum. Pic: Andrew Lee
January 8, 2026, 4:01 pm
Lithuania Lost Shtetl Museum dedicated to 200 Jewish communities destroyed by Nazis
SPECIAL REPORT: Actor Liev Schreiber lends support to ambitious Šeduva project restoring 'the faces and names of a community that once lived here'
By Michelle Rosenberg
March 23, 2017, 4:19 pm
Preparing for Passover in Ukraine’s last shtetl
Near the Moldavan border, Bershad is one of Europe’s last remaining shtetls with a small, ageing Jewish population
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
Every Shabbat morning, more than 100 members of the Shona Jewish community outside Rusape, Zimbabwe, gather at their tabernacle for services, wearing their best clothes, and sing original African-Jewish melodies in Hebrew, Shona, and English, resembling American gospel music (c) Jay Sand 1999
February 26, 2016, 10:06 am
The secret diaspora: A journey to discover the world’s hidden Jews
By Alex Galbinski
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