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Shtetls (small towns with large Jewish populations) are popularly remembered as places where the Jews who lived there were considered pious, powerless, and poor and where the pace of life was set by the Sabbath, festivals, and holy days. Petrovsky-Shtern (Jewish Studies, Northwestern Univ.; Lenin's Jewish Question) argues that this fallacy is drawn from the era of the shtetl's decline in the late 19th and early 20th centuries after the tsarist government, admi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More