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Definition of Shtetls
1. shtetl [n] - See also: shtetl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shtetls
Literary usage of Shtetls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"It takes a first turn with the massive arrival of Eastern European Jews (on the
run for pogroms in their shtetls) and of large quantities of Chinese and ..."
2. The Catskills Alive! by Francine Silverman (2003)
"As Stefan Kanfer writes in A Summer World, "the drama that began in the shtetls
of Russia unfolded in the Lower East Side and spilled out into the Catskill ..."
3. Dear Comrades: Menshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War by Vladimir N. Brovkin (1991)
"From various cities and shtetls in the former Jewish pale [a geographic area in
the western provinces of Belorussia and the Ukraine where the Jews were ..."
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