“There is a romanticism for the Ghetto that never really existed”
One of greatest tragedies of the Russian Revolution with ensuing chaos followed by the holocaust according to Rav Soloveitchik was that every hamlet,every village, had it’s own dear traditions ,it’s own מסורה and minhagim
“actually a much more destructive and halachically problematic issue” is the shlilut Hagalut and denigration of forebears