זשאַבע-זיללאַ<p>"What sometimes gets forgotten amid the myriad horrors of the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Shoah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shoah</span></a> (Hebrew for <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a>) is the systematic obliteration of entire cultures. <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Shtetls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shtetls</span></a> (<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yiddish</span></a> for 'small towns') with predominantly, or entirely, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> populations were scattered across the east. In a world in which pogroms might flare up and result in massacres, these communities provided relative security out of which all kinds of cultural expression might flourish. Core to them was often a rich <a href="https://babka.social/tags/musical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musical</span></a> life, with the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/violin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violin</span></a> at its core. This playlist seeks to commemorate that heritage."</p><p><a href="https://www.rabbitroom.com/post/shtetl-jewish-europe-s-eradicated-east-5-1-classical-playlist-36" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rabbitroom.com/post/shtetl-jew</span><span class="invisible">ish-europe-s-eradicated-east-5-1-classical-playlist-36</span></a></p>