The area of historical Galicia, as well as the neighboring geographical areas, such as Western Galicia, Bukovina or Podolia, represented a favorable environment for the development of Jewish habitats, starting with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and also later, carried out with a predilection in cities with a strong economic character. Many of these cities benefited from privileges granted by the Magdeburg laws, having the local name of miasto and, in parallel, that of shtetl or shtod, names given by the Jewish communities. The predominant areas in which traces of this type of housing are found are divided today between several states, between Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Moldova, where traces of Jewish living can still be found, in some cases better preserved, in others on the verge of disappearing. The research raises the issue of a different historical reading of the city, trying to highlight the involvement and influence of the Jewish communities on constructions and spatial urban typologies, identifiable in former trade cities from the Polish-Ukrainian space. Specific Jewish living typologies, which bear the mark of the owners’ concern for business and of necessary architectural programs due to the specificity imposed by the Jewish religion (synagogue, ritual bath, schools etc.), manage to be transposed through recognizable urban schemes on some settlements, to which is added a high degree of local specificity, determined by local constructive methods and materials or by the various architectural trends taken over and considered “in trend”. The perception of these Jewish settlements today, as a series of historical urban clichés, could reconstruct regional manifestations of Jewish housing in an extended geographical space, also having the purpose of rasing awareness for protecting and preserving the remains of these manifestations of ethnic and religious living, which are still visible today.