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shtetl
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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 ).
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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 ...
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.