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If you take into the consideration that small towns and "schtetl" around Kiev didn't have gymnazias and University or any women institutions mid-wife medical courses and such and so the young people from countryside went to big city to study, as all young people everywhere always did and do, you'll see how difficult was the task Toby's grandparents accomplished.
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I grew up in Chicago, you might say kind of like in a schtetl.
Jewish Answers - Women Who Dared - Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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I grew up in Chicago, you might say kind of like in a schtetl.
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I grew up in Chicago, you might say kind of like in a schtetl.
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Kvetching about husbands, family, sex and weight issues, these “princesses of comedy” prove that the stuff cracking-up Bubby and Zayde in the schtetl is still pretty darn funny today.
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It's a small schtetl near Tul'chin where my grandfather came from,in Ukraine.
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Burg’s position is that today’s Jews, who in America and Israel are at the cutting edge of every scientific and intellectual endeavor have “no influence” compared to centuries in which we were locked in the ghetto and schtetl, kept away from the wider world.
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