Talk:List of shtetls

Russia Anyone?

In the Russian Empire - and I'm not just talking about the areas which lie within the modern-day countries of Eastern Europe (as listed in the article), what about the hundreds and hundreds of Shtetls in the Pale of Settlement. Bessarabian Jews for example. Its almost ridiculous to think just how many Jews lived in what is now Western Russia, in places where people in Western Europe and America would consider, the absolute middle-of-nowhere. All of it was destroyed by the Nazis, where are those lists? You might need to take a trip to Yad Vashem to find out. Colt .55 (talk) 01:19, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

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... and if anyone DOES want to spend 100 years on it, it takes writing all name variations, or else some will never find what they're looking for. Good luck & patience.Arminden (talk) 18:26, 10 April 2015 (UTC)Arminden

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Seems that the work has been done already, but on paper: Where Once We Walked, details of 37,000 towns! So the shortcut is: contact Yad Vashem or the author/publisher of 'Where Once We Walked" and ask for online publication of their lists, adding WP links to each. Still more than my lifetime's worth or work.Arminden (talk) 18:40, 10 April 2015 (UTC)Arminden

Burmel?

Does anyone know the current name? It's mentioned as "in Volhynia".Arminden (talk) 18:26, 10 April 2015 (UTC)Arminden

Move to Yiddish placenames?

This article seems redundant next to "List of places depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust". It does serve the purpose of marking Yiddish exo/endo-nyms for various places, however. Should it be moved to that? Starbeam2 (talk) 20:18, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Astryna

Astryna in present-day Belarus appears to be missing from the list. I'd add it, but don't know Hebrew. Crawiki (talk) 11:22, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Sources, please

I hate to be so, you know, about sources and WP:V, but all of the foreign-language terms in this here article are unsourced and many would seem difficult to verify. Please add WP:RS for any and all facts in this article, even because it is a list article, requires adherence to verifiability policies nonetheless. Elizium23 (talk) 22:31, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Done – the majority of the names come from the JewishGen KehilaLinks database found here through their "Gazetter" search system, which vigorously documents its sources for international translations of town names. Zhomron (talk) 18:01, 7 November 2022 (UTC)