Definition of shtetl in English:

shtetl

nounPlural shtetls, Plural shtetlach ˈʃtɛt(ə)lˈSHtetl

historical

A small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe.
a small shtetl in Belarus where Jay's ancestors lived
as modifier childhood was shtetl life transplanted, Brooklyn coloured by Old World reverberations
figurative the transformation of gay literature, its emergence from the shtetl, continues apace
Example sentencesExamples
- In the shtetls of Eastern Europe, Jewish women had served their families by conducting business in the marketplace so that their men were free to spend time in study and prayer.
- Born in the busy Russian port of Odessa on the Black Sea in 1894, Babel grew up in a shtetl, a Jewish village.
- Early Zionist leaders, from the late nineteenth century onwards, consciously set out to create a class of Jews who were the opposite of the Jews of the shtetl (the traditional Eastern European Jewish ghetto).
- These early Zionist leaders knew of course that religion had preserved Jewish identity in the ghettos and shtetls of Europe, but in the modern Jewish state, they felt there would be no need for it.
- The film deals with the discovery by a German cabaret agent of a strong man working as a blacksmith in a Jewish shtetl in eastern Poland.

Origin

Yiddish, 'little town'.

Definition of shtetl in US English:

shtetl

nounˈSHtetl

historical

A small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe.
a small shtetl in Belarus where Jay's ancestors lived
as modifier childhood was shtetl life transplanted, Brooklyn colored by Old World reverberations
figurative the transformation of gay literature, its emergence from the shtetl, continues apace
Example sentencesExamples
- The film deals with the discovery by a German cabaret agent of a strong man working as a blacksmith in a Jewish shtetl in eastern Poland.
- Early Zionist leaders, from the late nineteenth century onwards, consciously set out to create a class of Jews who were the opposite of the Jews of the shtetl (the traditional Eastern European Jewish ghetto).
- Born in the busy Russian port of Odessa on the Black Sea in 1894, Babel grew up in a shtetl, a Jewish village.
- These early Zionist leaders knew of course that religion had preserved Jewish identity in the ghettos and shtetls of Europe, but in the modern Jewish state, they felt there would be no need for it.
- In the shtetls of Eastern Europe, Jewish women had served their families by conducting business in the marketplace so that their men were free to spend time in study and prayer.

Origin

Yiddish, ‘little town’.

单词	shtetl
释义	Definition of shtetl in English: shtetl nounPlural shtetls, Plural shtetlach ˈʃtɛt(ə)lˈSHtetl historical A small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe. a small shtetl in Belarus where Jay's ancestors lived as modifier childhood was shtetl life transplanted, Brooklyn coloured by Old World reverberations figurative the transformation of gay literature, its emergence from the shtetl, continues apace Example sentencesExamples In the shtetls of Eastern Europe, Jewish women had served their families by conducting business in the marketplace so that their men were free to spend time in study and prayer. Born in the busy Russian port of Odessa on the Black Sea in 1894, Babel grew up in a shtetl, a Jewish village. Early Zionist leaders, from the late nineteenth century onwards, consciously set out to create a class of Jews who were the opposite of the Jews of the shtetl (the traditional Eastern European Jewish ghetto). These early Zionist leaders knew of course that religion had preserved Jewish identity in the ghettos and shtetls of Europe, but in the modern Jewish state, they felt there would be no need for it. The film deals with the discovery by a German cabaret agent of a strong man working as a blacksmith in a Jewish shtetl in eastern Poland. Origin Yiddish, 'little town'. Definition of shtetl in US English: shtetl nounˈSHtetl historical A small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe. a small shtetl in Belarus where Jay's ancestors lived as modifier childhood was shtetl life transplanted, Brooklyn colored by Old World reverberations figurative the transformation of gay literature, its emergence from the shtetl, continues apace Example sentencesExamples The film deals with the discovery by a German cabaret agent of a strong man working as a blacksmith in a Jewish shtetl in eastern Poland. Early Zionist leaders, from the late nineteenth century onwards, consciously set out to create a class of Jews who were the opposite of the Jews of the shtetl (the traditional Eastern European Jewish ghetto). Born in the busy Russian port of Odessa on the Black Sea in 1894, Babel grew up in a shtetl, a Jewish village. These early Zionist leaders knew of course that religion had preserved Jewish identity in the ghettos and shtetls of Europe, but in the modern Jewish state, they felt there would be no need for it. In the shtetls of Eastern Europe, Jewish women had served their families by conducting business in the marketplace so that their men were free to spend time in study and prayer. Origin Yiddish, ‘little town’.
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