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We did not have resting places in prolonged settlement in a transplanted Warsaw on the East Side of Manhattan or a transplanted shtetl in Brownsville.
Such paintings, along with the swirling Céret landscapes, struck collectors of the 1920s as "naive," just the sort of unschooled stuff you'd expect from a Slavic child of the shtetl . The critic Waldemar George wrote in 1928, "Is this not the art of an exile, or even a savage?"
The shtetl in Belarus that my father left to come to America as a boy, over 100 years ago, certainly bears no traces of my origins--if it still exists.
The brutally funny Steve Stern ( Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven , Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground , A Plague of Dreamers ) does this by inventing a shtetl that out-Singers Singer in its weirdness and filth and then putting it in pre-World War II Memphis, Tenn.
The discontinuity between Jewish life in the Russian shtetl in 1897 and Jewish life in the Watergate Apartments in Washington in 1997 must be the greatest one-century gap in Jewish life since the Exodus.