Sentences with phrase «from shtetl»

The transition from shtetl life in Russia to a small, Anglo - Saxon community in rural Maine was not an easy one.

Our family chicken soup recipe, passed down from my great grandmother from a shtetl in Poland, included a lot of «soup greens» besides the usual carrots, celery, parsnip, onion, garlic.

Students examine the pressures on European Jews as they moved away from the shtetls to larger urban centers at end of the nineteenth century.

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Jews whose great - grandparents were chased from their Russian shtetls; Chinese whose grandparents lived through the ravages of the Cultural Revolution; young immigrants from Africa whose parents survived massacres; adults of every ethnicity who grew up with alcoholic or abusive parents — all carry with them more than just memories.

But what if she is a golem made of clay from a Polish shtetl, and he is a 1,000 - year - old jinni from the deserts of Syria?

Instead, Chagall developed his own idiom from a combination of Expressionism, Symbolism and Surrealism, employing imagery from the daily life of the shtetl to convey a moral and philosophical message.

As far as learning a financial lesson from those old shtetls — you could do worse than teaching your kids that education and charity are the highest virtues.