Poetic Fables and Guarded Secrets in “The Lost Shtetl” – Chicago Review of Books

Poetic Fables and Guarded Secrets in “The Lost Shtetl” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Deep in the forests of eastern Poland, the town of Kreskol lies forgotten. Through an improbable combination of bureaucratic negligence, unfriendly relations with other Jewish towns, and favorable geography, the Jews of Kreskol — the world’s last shtetl — have escaped the great onslaughts of the twentieth century (the Great War; the Holocaust; Polish … Read more