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The Lost Shtetl: A Novel Paperback by Max Gross synced Westerners often imagine Jews inWINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES A remarkable debut novelwritten with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing humor of Gary Shteyngartabout a small Jewish village in the Polish forest that is so secluded no one knows it exists . . . until now. What if there was a town that history missed? For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy