JewishGen KehilaLinks Web Page for Seta, Lithuania

Šėta, Lithuania

Shat Memorial Plaque at the Chamber of the Holocaust on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem. For a larger view, click on plaque.

Other Names

Shat, Shatt, Shot (Yiddish)

Shaty, Shatsk (Russian)

Szaty (Polish)

Maps (Latitude 55°17´, Longitude 24°15´)

Maps.lt--use the "Back" button on your browser to return to here

1:500,000 by Jāņa Sēta Map Publishers, Riga, Latvia

Map of unknown origin (1 inch = 8 miles)

Corresponding numbered map to 1862 Šėta inventory list

Karte des Westlichen Russlands, Sheet 0-20 Kiejdany, 1911, from Library of Congress

1:25,000 by Lithuania Authorities, Sheet 383, Šėta, 1930-1932, from library of University of California at Berkeley

Russian Empire, 1:126,000, Sheet XII-3, 1875, from Library of Congress

Russia in Europe, Part V, London, published by Baldwin & Craddock, 1835

Westrussland, Nördliche Hälfte by A. Thomas u. G. Jungk, 1898

Corresponding numbered map to 1922 Šėta property owners

Background Information and History

Shtetl Finder Gazetteer by Chester G. Cohen. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989.

Article on Šėta by Joseph Rosin (Haifa, Israel). English edited by Joe Woolf.

Pinkas HaKehillot Lita (Encyclopedia of Lithuanian Jewish Communities) by Dov Levin, Hebrew University, 1996. Translation of Seta chapter from the Hebrew.

Yidishe Shtet, shtetlekh un dorfishe yishuvim in Lite: biz 1918 (Jewish Cities, Towns and Villages in Lithuania until 1918) by Berl Kagan, Brooklyn, NY, 1991. Translation of Seta chapter from the Yiddish.

Yahadut Lita (Lithuanian Jewry), Volumes 3 and 4
The Association of The Lithuanian Jews in Israel, Tel Aviv, 1967 and 1984. Translation of Seta chapter from the Hebrew.

Lite (Lithuania), Volume 1

Searchable Databases

JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) (for Šėta)
Would you like to connect with others researching Šėta? Click the button to search the JGFF database.
(About the JGFF and its use)

Jewish Lithuania Database (for Šėta)
Click the button to show all entries for Šėta in the JewishGen Lithuania Database.
(About the JewishGen Lithuania Database)

1892 Šėta box tax list in the original Cyrillic (click on image
for larger view - 120KB)

Lithuanian Archival Documents

Are you a Shatter? -- Jewish surnames for Shat found in 19th century Lithuanian archival documents
Lithuanian archival holdings for Šėta
1846 Šėta candle tax list
1858 Šėta revision list
1858-59, 1874, and 1878-79 Šėta additional revision lists
1862 Šėta inventory list
1877 Šėta box tax list
1879, 1881 and 1907 Šėta municipal elector's list
1892 Šėta box tax list
Poor victims of the 1892 Šėta fire who were given financial aid
1892-94 Šėta towndweller's list
Šėta postal bank records 1893-1915
1898 Šėta rabbi's elector's list
1922 Šėta property owners

Additional Categories of Information

Prenumerantum Lists for Šėta
Šėta Telephone Directory for 1930
Šėta Telephone Directory for 1938
Šėta Fire Brigade Picture c. 1925 and identification
Šėta Literary Society Picture c. 1925 and identification
Shatter Landsmannschaft Certificate c. 1925 and translation
Shatter Progressive Benevolent Association - WPA Yiddish Writer's Group survey
Shatter Progressive Benevolent Association burials - Montefiore Cemetery
Shatter Progressive Benevolent Association burials - New Montefiore Cemetery
Shatters in Ellis Island Database (EIDB)
Shatter Progressive Benevolent Association 20th Anniversary Arrangement Committee 1929, New York
Shatter Progressive Benevolent Association 25th Anniversary Album 1934, Bronx, NY
Shatter Progressive Benevolent Association 50th Anniversary Album 1959, New York
Shater & District Benevolent Society Committee 1951-52, South Africa
Shater & District Benevolent Society Committee 1961-62, South Africa
The Boer Rebel from Shatt

Šėta Photo Gallery

The beit hamidrash was the center of the
religious life of Šėta. For other views of the
beit hamidrash, click on picture.

Pre-War Scenes of Šėta
Town Signs at Road Entrances into Šėta
Current Day Street Scenes
Šėta Beit HaMidrash
Šėta Jewish Cemetery
Abandoned Ruins of the Collective Farm
Mass Grave Site outside of Kedainiai
Valley of the Destroyed Communities, Yad Vashem
Memorials in Holon and Nahalat Yitzhak Cemeteries, Israel
Šėta Post Office
Šėta Catholic Church - Exterior
Šėta Catholic Church - Interior

Visits to Šėta

My Shtetl Šėta by Joe Woolf of Moshav Ilaniya, Israel
Return to Lithuania by Aaron Isaacson of Ein Yahav, Israel
Reflections of a Litvak by Cliff Garrun of Johannesburg, South Africa

Compiled by Ada Green
Updated 12 Feb 2023
Copyright © 2000-2023 Ada Green

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