Shtetl: A Jewish Universe
Hosted By: Baltimore Zionist District
Join the Baltimore Zionist District and tour guide, Evgenia Kempinski, for our 2-part series on Shtetls.
Shtetl – A Jewish town located on the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and later the Russian Pale of Settlement. Usually small and self-contained, shtetls were vibrant and full of Jewish life and tradition centers. However, these simple definitions need to explain the importance and influence of a Shtetl on Jewish life and culture.
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!['The Cossacks' Reply to the Sultan (Zaporozhtsy)', c1890, (1939). 'Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey', also known as 'Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto', 19th-century imagining of a supposed historical event of 1676, based on the legend of Cossacks sending an apparently rude and insulting reply to an ultimatum from Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire. 'On the right is Taras Bulba (in a white cap), the hero of Gogol's tale of the same name; on the left is Andrei, Taras Bulba's son; almost in the centre sits Ataman (Chief) Serko with a pipe in his mouth'. Ilya Repin (1844-1930) took nearly 20 years to paint the picture, for which Tsar Alexander III paid him 35,000 rubles, at the time the greatest sum ever paid for a Russian painting. In the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]](https://www.myjewishlearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1085305746-430x245.jpg)
