It sounds like it's about a family of Eastern European Jews or maybe Gypsies. Shtetls were smallish Russian Jewish villages, several of which were destroyed by pogroms during the reign of Alexander II and again during the 1917 Revolution. Anatevka from Fiddler on the Roof is one of these.
I find this song really beautiful and really disturbing.
It sounds like it's about a family of Eastern European Jews or maybe Gypsies. Shtetls were smallish Russian Jewish villages, several of which were destroyed by pogroms during the reign of Alexander II and again during the 1917 Revolution. Anatevka from Fiddler on the Roof is one of these.
I find this song really beautiful and really disturbing.