Word: shtetl
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There was a time when I would roll my eyes at the Goldies, Shlomos and Sadies of the world - those old-country Jewish folks with their old-fashioned shtetl names. They may have embodied my heritage - my peeps - but I winced at how out of step their monikers made them seem...
...German police battalion arrived at the shtetl of Sudilkov, in the Ukraine. The policemen led several hundred people to a bomb crater outside the town and shot them. The victims fell into the crater. A woman, unharmed, climbed out and sat on the edge, crying. A soldier shot her, and she fell back in. It was August...
...disturb Israel's birthday party, its sometime peace and its dream. For 2,000 years the thought of Zion warmed the minds of the world's scattered Jews. ''Next year in Jerusalem'' -- the prayer ended in an ardent sigh. The trajectory of that yearning was launched endlessly from shtetl and ghetto in the wilderness of the Diaspora. At last, 40 years ago the arc of the desire was completed, the dream implanted in history. Israel, thought David Ben-Gurion, would be a ''light unto the nations.'' In his memoirs in 1949, the first Israeli President, Chaim Weizmann, wrote about...
What they're searching for is the shtetl from which Jonathan's grandfather escaped, and it becomes increasingly clear that it was wiped out a half-century earlier by the Nazis. They find, at last, one survivor, Lista (Laryssa Lauret), who is also a collector but on a grander scale than Jonathan can imagine. Her aim is to keep alive the memory of the entire wiped-out village by hoarding its detritus. There is, as it turns out, one other survivor, whose identity should probably not be revealed here. Alas, the tragic dimensions of Everything Is Illuminated do not quite...
...movie Frida), is of Spanish-Italian heritage. And most of his daughters (and his wife Golde, played by Randy Graff) look like any other Broadway babies on the stage of the mammoth Minskoff Theatre. British director David Leveaux, moreover, has removed or toned down much of the shtetl shtick that has become identified with the show, the sort of thing that has kept Hadassah theater groups happy for decades. But that's no reason to dismiss a striking Broadway revival that manages to shake off the cobwebs and relocate the emotional core of a show too often typecast as your...