Chelm

Also found in: Acronyms.

Chelm

mythical place inhabited by amiable simpletons. [Jew. Folklore: Rosten, 84]

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Chełm

a city in eastern Poland. Administrative center of Chełm Województwo. Population, 46,000 (1974). Chełm is a railroad junction. It produces approximately 4 million tons of cement annually. The food-processing industry is represented by flour mills and a distillery producing liqueurs and spirits. The city also produces glass and agricultural machinery. Chalk is quarried in the area.

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

But the people of Chelm, whose Jewish community once numbered 18,000, have not forgotten.

Chelm, then a town of 30,000, was caught in the middle.

The Forgotten Death March of Chelm

Leo Shatin, the author of Simple Wisdom, has updated the Chelm stories by emphasizing the wisdom of its tales but at the expense of its humor.