Jewish village of old

• Any small Jewish village of yore
• Jewish village of Eastern Europe, formerly
• Historical community
• "Fiddler on the Roof" is set in one
• Place to hear a klezmer, once
• Small Jewish town
• Yiddish for "small town"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shtetlekh (, shtetl (singular), שטעטלעך, shtetlekh (plural)) were small towns with large Jewish populations, which existed in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust . Shtetlekh were mainly found in the areas that constituted the 19th-century Pale ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
shtetl \shtetl\ (sht[e^]t"'l); pl. Eng. shtetls (sht[e^]t"'lz), Yiddish shtetlach (sht[e^]t"l[aum]kh)., n. A village or small town; -- usually referring to Jewish towns in Eastern Europe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Jewish small town or village in Eastern Europe, 1949, from Yiddish, literally "little town," from diminutive of German Stadt "city, town," from Old High German stat "place," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet ).