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Small Jewish village of yore
Answer for the clue "Small Jewish village of yore ", 6 letters:
shtetl
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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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe.
Usage examples of shtetl.
Michael had diverged - or according to his appalled agnostic father, regressed into a sort of shtetl orthodoxy, while flashing ahead as a mathematician and physicist of extraordinary brilliance.
Shorter than his father, heavy-boned, with a flat Slavic face traceable to shtetl genes, Dov did not need good looks to fascinate a seventeen-year-old.