Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A forgotten Jewish community still thrives in the Caucasus. Once common across Eastern Europe, shtetl life disappeared—except for one place. This is the extraordinary story of the world’s last shtetl.

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00:00 Introduction
01:01 The Red Village
03:53 The Shtetl Life
06:14 The Jerusalem of the Caucasus
08:00 A Shtetl Like Any Other (But Not Quite)
11:48 The Billionaires’ Shtetl
14:59 An Uncertain Future