Jewish community buildings in Chotin 1930

The presence of Jewish community buildings is in important criterion in defining a place as a shtetl. Ritual baths and slaughterhouses, synagogues and prayer houses, schools and cemetaries are cornerstones of Jewish life and attracted the so-called yeshuvnikes to the shtetlekh. (Marie Schumacher-Brunhes, Lille)

Jewish community buildings, comprising "Dovid Shmuels kloyz (small synagogue)", "Yofes kloyz" and two "Talmud Torahs" (elementary schools), Chotin, Romania (now Ukraine), black-and-white photograph, 1930, unknown photographer; source: © YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York / The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.