1) Former Jewish community 2) Historical community 3) Jewish village 4) Jewish village of old 5) Old jewish community 6) Place to hear a klezmer, once 7) Small Jewish town 8) Small Jewish village 9) Type of town 10) Where Yiddish was once spoken
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[English words of Yiddish origin] a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe (Yiddish שטעטל shtetl 'town', diminutive of שטאָט shtot 'city'; cf. German Städtl, South German colloquial diminutive of Stadt, city)
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Shtetls (שטעטל, shtetl (singular), שטעטלעך, shtetlekh (plural)) were small towns with large Jewish population which existed in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and R...
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Village in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, the region in Ukraine and Belorussia to which Jewish settlement was confined in tsarist Russia.
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(from the article `dietary law`) ...on the Mosaic Law in regard to food can be observed in the dietary customs of certain groups of modern Jews in their daily lives. In the pre-World ...
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The Yiddish expression for a small town or village, usually applied specifically to towns and villages with significant Jewish populations in the Pale of Settlement.
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Small towns and villages in Poland and Russia that were made up mostly of Jews.
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A Jewish town or community, especially in Eastern Europe. See the JewishGen ShtetlSeeker Wiki page.
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