Crossword clues for shtetl
shtetl
- Jewish village in Eastern Europe
- Former Jewish community
- Yiddish-speaking village of yore
- Yiddish word meaning "little town"
- Tevye's town, e.g
- Tevye's Anatevka, for one
- Small Jewish town
- Russian Jewish village
- Place to hear a klezmer, once
- Jewish village of Eastern Europe, formerly
- Former Jewish village in Eastern Europe
- Any small Jewish village of yore
- "Fiddler on the Roof" is set in one
- Jewish village of old
- Village in Isaac Bashevis Singer stories
- "Fiddler on the Roof" setting
- Setting for many Sholem Aleichem stories
- Yiddish for "small town"
- Where Yiddish was once spoken
- Old Jewish community
- Historical community
- Town with Yiddish speakers
- Small Jewish village of yore
- "Fiddler on the Roof" village
- "Yentl" setting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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).
Wiktionary
n. A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe.
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 of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania. In Yiddish, a larger city, like Lwów (Lviv) or Czernowice (Chernivtsi), was called a shtot (, ); a village was called a dorf . Non-Jews referred to the shtetl as Mestechko (Russian местечко, Polish miasteczko).
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.