num_pages: 269
description: Based in part on a PBS documentary, a chronicle of the small-town life of East European Jewry from the 1500s to the Holocaust focuses on the ghetto of Bransk, in eastern Poland, whose Jewish members died in the camps.
language: English
title: Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews
titlecomplete: Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews
genres: Poland, Jewish, Historical, Nonfiction, Holocaust, History, Polish Literature, Religion, Judaica, Judaism
ratings_count: 240
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt