Last chapter: the East European shtetl
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Ukraine's Jewish settlements, or shtetls, are fast becoming extinct as the combination of open emigration and poverty at home forces many resident Jews immigrants to seek better lives elsewhere. Much of the financial support to these shtetls comes from the Joint Distribution Committee, financed by American Jews, which provides relief goods and services to impoverished residents. Although the small communities are dwindling, there are still 500,000 Jews in the Ukraine, concentrated primarily in large cities such as Kiev.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1997
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The shtetl sound: klezmer music
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Klezmer music, which combines a number of traditional Jewish musical styles, has experienced a revival in Europe and is now being discovered in America. The album 'In the Fiddler's House,' on which violinist Itzhak Perlman plays, is expected to increase the music's international profile.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1996
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Out of the shtetl: the rediscovery of Yiddish film
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The National Centre for Jewish Film at Brandeis University mounted a global search for Yiddish films. Twenty-eight motion pictures are now making a world tour. The Yiddish cinema which began in the 1900s in Eastern Europe, was almost wiped out by the second great European war.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1992
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