By Ann Rabinowitz
Recently,
a friend told me about a nostalgic replica of the shtetl of Miasteczko,
Poland. The recreation of the shtetl is
called Yankel’s Shtetl Station and it provides an experience of what life in
the shtetl was like. The contact at the
Yankel’s Shtetl Station is Gadi Jakob, jakob.shtetl@gmail.com.
More
about the replica can be seen on their site:
http://shtetl.co.il/pws/.
It is located in Kfar Hassidim, Israel, and you can learn more about it
on this link: http://shtetl.co.il/pws/page!5247.
Although partly in Hebrew, there is an English link too.
In
addition, a further interesting virtual shtetl portal was developed in 2008 and
is now part of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/the-project/.
This Museum is being constructed in in Warsaw, Poland. It is there that you can also learn more
about the 2,913 Polish shtetls represented on the site, especially in the
filmography and media.
By the
way, for those of you who are unfamiliar with the term “shtetl”, you can go
look it up on Wikipedia!!! It is the
essential building block to find your ancestral records as they are organized
by shtetl and not by family name.
To learn
more, you can go to the Kehilalinks site on JewishGen and click on the Poland
link: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Poland.html.
The JRI-Poland site, http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/, is also a tremendously helpful
resource for your research into specific shtetls and families who lived there.
Have fun
in your Polish research!
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