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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (240644)12/28/2013 9:31:32 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541114
 
Just watched Shalom Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness--a documentary/biography of Shalom Aleichem--on Netflix. Definitely worth watching for a view of Russian shtetl Jews and, in the last 20-30 minutes, how he was regarded in the 20th century, Fidler on the Roof, and Jewish identity.

The Russian Pale, where the vast majority of Eastern European Jews lived in the 19th century--most of my ancestors were from the areas around Bobruysk and Vilna.