SHTETL

Shtetl

A shtetl, was a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe before the pogroms and 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 Romania. A larger city, like Lemberg or Czernowitz, was called a shtot ; a smaller village was called a dorf .

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shtetl

Noun

  1. A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe.


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