Photo of the day: Laurence Goodstein and friends from Camp Oneida.
Ca.
1915
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Lerner
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Photo of the day: Outdoor religious services at country camp, circa 1950. National Jewish Welfare Board Records. From American Jewish Historical Society.
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Photo of the day: Lois Greene Stone, Camp Watitoh, Becket, Massachusetts, 1950. From American Jewish Historical Society.
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Row of Jewish-owned stores near Great Synagogue, Lumobl, Poland (now Ukraine), 1925. (Collection of Photographs and Measurement Drawings, neg. 23441. Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. All rights reserved. Image courtesy the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress).
The prevailing image of the shtetl is the one in Fiddler on the Roof: a small, dirt-poor, strictly Jewish village. But shtetls…