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Shetl Days

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Shetl Days	comment	Shetl Days is an Alternate History short story by Harry Turtledove. It can be read for free online here.Jakub Shlayfer is a Polish Jew in the small village of Wawolnice in the early 20th Century. He ekes out a living as a knife sharpener and Jack-of-all-trades dealing with the daily struggles of poverty, his unpleasable wife Bertha, arguments with his fellow Jews over the finer points of theology and tension with the Polish majority in the village. Except that's not true at all. Jakub Shlayfer is actually Veit Harlan, and Bertha is his real-life wife Kristina Söderbaum. They are German actors who, along with dozens of others, play Jews in a theme park built by the Greater German Reich a hundred years after the glorious victory in the War of Retribution.Veit and his coworkers have been playing their roles for years now, and what started out as just a steady gig has become very different. It's hard to tell where Jakub ends and Veit begins anymore, and he's not the only one. All the real Jews were exterminated long before any of the park employees were born, but if you pretend to be a Jew every day of your life for years on end, when do you start to become one?
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Shetl Days / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Shetl Days / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The park from the Nazi's perspective. They systematically exterminated all the Jews in the world, then decided to have actors pretend to be them in order to show the world the inferior people they destroyed. They had the actors perfectly replicate a Jewish community until they basically became one, essentially recreating a people that had successfully wiped out.
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Shetl Days / int_22ebf5bc	type	Japanese Tourist
Shetl Days / int_22ebf5bc	comment	Japanese Tourist: The park is a popular attraction for them.
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Shetl Days / int_233d181	type	Misaimed Fandom
Shetl Days / int_233d181	comment	Misaimed Fandom: In-Universe, the Nazis love Frederick the Great and Voltaire, both of whom would have been horrified by the Reich. Albeit not entirely for the same reasons modern people would be.
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Shetl Days / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Shetl Days / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To In the Presence of Mine Enemies by the same author. Both stories deal with a secret "Jewish" community in a world ruled by Nazis, albeit from completely different angles. The protagonists of Enemies are crypto-Jews hiding from the Reich by pretending to be Aryans; however, the "Jews" in Shetl Days are ethnic Germans who have adopted Jewish traditions and culture and are Hidden in Plain Sight as certified Aryans whose job is to pretend to be Jewish.
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Shetl Days / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
Shetl Days / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The OG Schutzstaffel are alive and well in this timeline.
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Shetl Days / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Shetl Days / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: The Judaised actors are well aware that they'll be executed if they get caught, so they're very careful not to arouse suspicion. Veit and Kristina fast on Yom Kippur; but they turn on their oven for as long as it should take to cook something, sit at the table and talk for an appropriate amount of time and wash their perfectly clean dishes, so anyone who listens in or checks their utility usage won't see anything unusual. When Veit briefly falls under suspicion, he and Kristina make a point of going to a crowded restaurant that night and ordering two very non-Kosher meals, making sure plenty of people see them eat every bite. Then they go a few more times over the next couple of weeks, as either a one-off visit or going every night would also be suspicious.
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Shetl Days / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Shetl Days / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The Reich provides a high material standard of living (for Aryans), but it's artistically bereft, the SS can detain and interrogate anyone they like whenever they feel like it, and everyone is constantly fearful and suspicious of their neighbours. This is why the actors started to prefer their roles to their actual lives- they may be poor, but they're part of a real community which nobody in the outside world is.
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Shetl Days / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Shetl Days / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: A group of actors spend their days portraying the inhabitants of a small Jewish community, for the entertainment of citizens of a triumphant 21st-century Third Reich. All of the Jews who actually lived in the region have long since been slain. But the entire group of actors, unbeknownst to the Reich, have begun adopting Jewish customs, attitudes, and beliefs in their own lives, and think of themselves as heirs to the Jewish tradition.
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Shetl Days / int_51bc8d33	type	The Church
Shetl Days / int_51bc8d33	comment	The Church: The German Christian Church is the state religion of the Reich, no other religions or even permitted Christian denominations are mentioned. It's explicitly stated that the Church really worships the Reich, not God.
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Shetl Days / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Shetl Days / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: The few surviving Slavs in the Reich are used as slave labour.
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Shetl Days / int_8ee370b6	type	Method Acting
Shetl Days / int_8ee370b6	comment	Method Acting: The "Jews" never break character on the job. Even when Veit/Jakub is being interrogated by the SS he won't drop the act without direct instructions from his boss.
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Shetl Days / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Shetl Days / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: The television, films and plays produced by the Reich are described as nothing but "pap and revivals". That's one reason why Veit/Jakub and Kristina/Bertha took the jobs with Wawolnice. It was a chance to do something else.
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Shetl Days / int_a8357dc2	type	No Woman's Land
Shetl Days / int_a8357dc2	comment	No Woman's Land: Downplayed. The Nazi-ruled world is clearly very patriarchal. Even in the mid-21st Century it's taken for granted that the wife does all the cooking and cleaning
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Shetl Days / int_b761a11e	type	Dyeing for Your Art
Shetl Days / int_b761a11e	comment	Dyeing for Your Art: Kristina/Bertha shaved off her natural blond hair for the role of an Orthodox Jewish woman, and presumably the other actresses at the park did too.
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Shetl Days / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Shetl Days / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: Reb Eliezer (real name Ferdinand Marian) as the "Rabbi" of the "Jews" in Wawolnice. Unlike the others, he wasn't an actor before coming to the park, he was a Christian minister who was chosen for the role because his training and consequent knowledge of Hebrew and Aramaic made him perfectly suited to play a Rabbi. He also becomes their unofficial leader outside the park as well.
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Shetl Days / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
Shetl Days / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: Hangings and beheadings are broadcast on TV along with football and bad sitcoms. The park occasionally stages "pogroms" where the actors playing Poles "riot" and beat convicts dressed as Jews to death in front of paying spectators.
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Shetl Days / int_e698d371	type	Alternate-History Nazi Victory
Shetl Days / int_e698d371	comment	Alternate-History Nazi Victory: The Nazis won the war and appear to have Taken Over The World.
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Shetl Days / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Shetl Days / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Veit/Jakub strongly suspects that at least one of the actors is actually a plant by the SS. For a while he thought Reb Eliezer might be it, but eventually realises that if Eliezer was going to turn them in he would have done it by now.
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