Sentences with word «shtetl»

Though Hopkins lovingly re-creates the surfaces of shtetl life, its deep spirituality seems to elude him.

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

Yet this sense of wonder is as fragile as shtetl life itself.

The Memory Coat (Scholastic Press), written by Elvira Woodruff and illustrated by Michael Dooling, tells the story of Grisha, a Jewish orphan who lives with his extended family in a turn - of - the - century Russian shtetl, or town.

Haunted by the loss of her parents and driven from her Polish shtetl during the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1921, Devorah is taken to safety in South Africa's Jewish community.

Approximation is the continuing task, and when we grow weary and are tempted to despair, recall the fellow in the Eastern European shtetl whose job was to look out for the coming of the Messiah.

He showed our group a bright diorama of 19th century shtetl life, complete with fiddler on roof, then cued up a 1930s film called Polin: the Hebrew word for Poland, meaning Here you shall rest.

His own shtetl imps which sometimes bound about his New York apartment are very like the shadowy rascals at whom Luther threw an inkwell.

Even if the antic futility of attempting to get an entire shtetl to pull together in the face of genocide is your idea of a day at the races, don't laugh too hard — the out - of - nowhere ending will make you choke on every chuckle.

Just as the young protagonist Shimek (Yevheniy Kogan) sees princesses and palaces in his tiny impoverished shtetl, writer - director Eva Neymann imbues ordinary -LSB-...]

In pictures that combine shtetl folk - art and urban contemporary, Shulevitz captures the small child's joyful vision, which can see a world in a snowflake and feel the exhilaration in a snowfall that transforms the world.

But the truth, it turns out, is that you sold me berries in Dzialoszyce, the next town I visited, this one off the usual «shtetl trail.»

Rothko's signature style, achieved in 1949, is as Jewish as Chagall's, even though Chagall portrays shtetl scenes, while Rothko's offered abstractions.

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.

I grew up in a Jewish family in a small town in Argentina that was a kind of shtetl where, up until the age of 12, I didn't know anybody who wasn't Jewish.

His best - known works are paintings of Ukrainian Jewish shtetl life and characters.

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?

Dooling's oil paintings nicely capture the feel of shtetl life, the horror of the systematic persecution of the Jews, and the uncertainty that goes along with leaving everything familiar to live in a strange new land.

«The shtetl can't afford a raise,» they replied, «but look at it this way: It's steady work.»

The «returnees» seek to recapitulate the lifestyle of the East European Jewish shtetl, or village, of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Their villages, dotting the northern reach of the Rio Grande, were once as lively and insular as the shtetls of Eastern Europe.

«If Vinay Deolalikar is awarded the $ 1,000,000 Clay Millennium Prize for his proof of PNP, then I, Scott Aaronson, will personally supplement his prize by the amount of $ 200,000,» Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, wrote on his blog, Shtetl - Optimized.

Although her Polish accent is worn uncomfortably and becomes more and more pronounced as the years roll by (does Joanna live in a shtetl when she's not following Jobs around?)

When Cossack raiders begin to threaten the safety of the shtetl, the family decides to leave Russia for the United States.

Students study the vibrant culture of the Jews who lived in the shtetls in eastern Europe, while also deepening their understanding of prejudice toward minority groups.

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

In this lesson, students will examine different representations of the shtetl and consider similarities and differences between life there and life in their own communities today.

This lesson focuses on the lives of Jews who lived in the shtetls of eastern Europe.

If they already had an idea of what the shtetl or shtetl life was like, how has that impression changed?

Students will explore characteristics of the shtetl and the advantages and disadvantages of living in these small, relatively homogenous communities.

Between the shtetl and the Holocaust is a blank.

Once, though, Jews fueled local industry in places like this: shtetls were planned communities, designed to sustain small economies.

Many of the works in this exhibition feature vignettes of Jewish life, including denizens of the shtetl (village) life, the Seder meal, the Synagogue and vintage New York scenes.

The works were inspired by his recent visit to the shtetl in Poland where his mother was born.

Soutine's highly personal approach to the subject of still - life and the depictions of hanging fowl and beef carcasses were influenced by his childhood memories of the shtetl of Smilovitchi in the Russian empire (present - day Belarus), where he grew up.

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.

Born in the shtetl of Pereyaslav, fifty miles southeast of Kiev, on this date in 1899, her family moved to Rockland, Maine in 1905.

To an audience accustomed to earnest reconstructions of the lost worlds of the shtetl and the Lower East Side, Reichek's sinister rendering of the next stop on the Jewish American journey was audacious.

The work, attributed to the avant - garde artist Natalia Goncharova and estimated to fetch from $ 560,000 to $ 930,000, depicts the ceremony of matchmaking in a Ukrainian shtetl.

Before coming to America, my ancestors lived in shtetls — another word for the small Jewish communities that littered Poland and other eastern European countries (the borders of which have all changed since then, anyway).

You've probably seen a shtetl if you've ever seen Fiddler on the Roof or read Everything is Illuminated.

PEREL: My history as someone who's always lived on the edge of polarities — speaking Yiddish and French (the shtetl and the cosmopolitan), living in orthodox Judaism and secularism, believing in the importance of accountability and self - fulfillment — seem well suited for the pertinent questions of the day.