Russia Official Bank Postcard Kozelets Shtetl Ukraine Pale Of Settlement 1929

Good very rare card from Moscow to Kozelets Shtetl Ukraine. Jewish Fund of Dresden, Germany donation of $15 to Gelia Eidelman
A shtetl (Yiddish: שטעטל, diminutive form of Yiddish shtot שטאָט, "town") was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe until The Holocaust. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: שטעטלעך, shtetlekh) were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Emp...ire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania. A larger city, like Lemberg (Lviv) or Czernowitz, was called a shtot (Yiddish: שטאָט); a smaller village was called a dorf (Yiddish: דאָרף).The concept of shtetl culture is used as a metaphor for the traditional way of life of 19th-century Eastern European Jews. Shtetls are portrayed as pious communities following Orthodox Judaism, socially stable and unchanging despite outside influence or attacks. The Holocaust resulted in the disappearance of the vast majority of shtetls, through both extermination under Nazi occupation and exodus to the United States and Palestine - as well as to the main cities of Russia, opened to Jewish habitation with the fall of the Czarist regime.

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