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‖ shtetl|ˈʃtɛt(ə)l, ˈʃteɪt(ə)l|
Also shtetel. Pl. shtetlach, shtetlakh, shtetls.
[Yiddish, ‘little town’, f. G. stadt.]
Now Hist. A small Jewish town or village in Eastern Europe. Also transf.
1949Yivo Ann. Jewish Soc. Sci. IV. 87 Swistocz..was considered one of the larger towns (shtetl) in the district of Grodno. 1963M. Samuel Little did I Know ix. 137 The Shtetlach! Those forlorn little settlements in a vast and hostile wilderness, isolated alike from Jewish and non-Jewish centers of civilization. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 370 The world of the Jews in Germany..was vastly different from the world of shtetl Jews in eastern Europe. 1972New Society 3 Aug. 228/1 People who, in former reincarnations, were clerks and schoolmarms in the shtetls of Minsk, Pinsk and Milwaukee. 1973Times 3 Feb. 13/4 Jewish food is the diet of the shtetel—the small village. 1976Nat. Observer (U.S.) 6 Mar. 19/1 In the shtetlakh, the small towns, they lived lives of grinding poverty amid the constant expectation of external attack. 1977Listener 31 Mar. 422/4 The little Jewish townships of Russia, the shtetlach. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 1314/2 Hitler swept away the shtetls of Eastern Europe. |