Welcome to Shtetl Tour 2024

Long before I was a jewish kid growing up in Brooklyn, when Peter Luger's was just a twinkle in my granfather's eye, my ancestors lived in Lithuania and Poland, the Pale of Settlement.

Located in the  north of Lithuania, this is the town where my greatgrandfather Barnet  (my dad's paternal grandfather) grew up. My  dad's  maternal grandparents, the Perelmans,  were from Staklishok

This is the town in Latvia where  Barnet Glukman learned to be a tinsmith

My mom's maternal grandmother Dora Burstein was born in this Shtetl north or Kaunas in Central Lithuania.  She is said to be the descended from a famous Rabbi. Her husband Jacob Snitzer wrote a book on the Bal Shem Tov.

My  greatgrandmother Becky (my mom's  maternal grandmother ) told  us stories of life along the Vistual River in this small shtetl town about an hour west of Warsaw, Poland where she and her husband Abe lived.

Before Wyzogrod, my grandmother Becky's family  (Goldberg) came  to Wyzogrod from Warsaw . I am told that Beck'y father was an Architect in that city.