Shtetl

The Yiddish term for a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe. The concept of shtetl culture is used as a metaphor for the traditional way of life of 19th century Eastern European Jews. The Holocaust saw the disappearance of the vast majority of shtetls through extermination and mass exodus.

• A
• Alt Aussee
• Altarpiece
• American Defense, Harvard Group
• Anschluss
• Anti-Semitism
• Arbitration
• Aryan
• Aryanization
• Auction
• Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Austerlitz
• B
• Bauhaus
• Birkenau
• Blue Shield
• C
• Chartres Cathedral
• Collaborator
• Collecting Points
• Cultural Heritage
• Curator
• D
• Dachau
• Degenerate Art
• Duomo
• E
• ERR
• Ethnocentrism
• Eugenics
• F
• Fresco
• Frieze
• G
• Genocide
• Good Faith Purchaser
• H
• Holocaust
• I
• Impressionism
• In Good Faith
• In Situ
• J
• Jeu de Paume
• K
• Kristallnacht
• L
• Lebensraum
• Linz
• Looting
• M
• M-Aktion
• Mass Media
• Mein Kampf
• Mezuzah
• MFAA
• Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art
• Mural
• N
• National Socialist Party
• Nisei Officer
• Nuremberg Laws
• Nuremberg Trials
• P
• Patrimony
• Propaganda
• Provenance
• R
• Race Hygiene
• Renaissance
• Reparations
• Repository
• Restitution
• Roberts Commission
• ROTC
• S
• Scapegoating
• Sfumato
• Shtetl
• Spoliation
• Stereotype
• T
• Theresienstadt
• Treaty of Versailles
• Trophies of War
• Trophy Brigades
• U
• Unjust Enrichment
• W
• World Heritage List