You just show your ignorance... There were fanatics and ignorant in shtetl, especially with the rabbis... The rabbis for instance were there against women learning...
OTH this wasn't a reason for the Poles to cooperate with the Germans in killing them!
My family was urban and educated, and contarrily to Alouette's remarks, quite orthodox then...
So my degree in Mathematics is a figment of the imagination?
Not really. I can see I know a lot more about this topic than you do.
There were fanatics and ignorant in shtetl, especially with the rabbis...
Oh yes, those ignorant rabbis - studying the Torah all day long.
The rabbis for instance were there against women learning...
LOL!!!
Apparently you think the only reliable historical source on shtetl life is the movie Yentl!
The rabbis may have been opposed to women spending all their time as Torah scholars, but few communities in world history had women as literate as those shtetl Jews did.
My family was urban and educated, and contarrily to Alouette's remarks, quite orthodox then...
As are Orthodox Jews today.
Well, at least you're still urban!