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Shtetls (Villages)

Sorry, I don't consider the Bronx or Century Village a shtetl.

Populations represent Jewish populations.

Source: Where Once We Walked, Mokotoff, Gary; Sack, Sallyann Amdur, Avotaynu, Inc., 1991

Beret, Hungary

(Abauj-Torna) pop 16, 38km NNE of Miskolc, 48° 21’/21° 02’

Falesti, Bessarabia (Moldova)

pop 3,258, 107km WNW of Kishinev, 47° 34’/27° 42’

·         Yizkor Book at NYPL - Bessarabia (1952)

·         Yizkor Book at NYPL - Bessarabia (1959)

·         Yizkor Book at NYPL - Bessarabia (1971)

·         Yizkor Book at NYPL - Bessarabia (1973)

Kishinev, Bessarabia (Moldova)

pop 41,405, 47° 00’/28° 50’

Kovno, (Kaunas) Lithuania

pop 25,044, 94km W of Vilnaus, 54° 54’/23° 54’

·         JewishGen Shtetl Page

Miskolc, Hungary

(Miskolcz, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemblén) pop 10,428, 139km NE of Budapest, 48° 06’/20° 47’

Nadzhmihali, Hungary

(Now: Michalovce, Slovakia) pop 4,761, 50km ENE of Kosice, 48° 45’/21° 56’

Nagy Ida, Hungary

(Velka Ida, Czechoslovakia) pop 111, 82km WNW of Kosice, 49° 04’/20° 17’

Puchavitch, Russia

(Pukhovichi, Minsk, Belarus) pop 929, 56km ESE of Minsk, 53° 32’/28° 15’

Storozhinets, Bukavina, Ukraine

(Storozhevtsy, Homyel’skaya, Belarus) pop 2,482, 26km SW of Chernovtsy, 48° 10’/25° 43’

Tornal'a, Hungary (now Slovakia)

30.1 miles NW of Miskolc, 48°25' 20°20'

Wiskitki, Poland

45km WSW of Warszaw, 52°05' 20°24'E

Zinkov, Ukraine

*Source: The Road from Letichev, Chapin, David; Weinstock, Ben 2000. Click here to go to Web Page. - See Zinkov Synagogue photo.

(Zin'kov, Khmelnyts'ka) pop 3,700, 49° 5’/27° 4’

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