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shtetl

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shtetl
any small-town Jewish settlement in East Europe. [Jewish Hist.: Wigoder, 552]
See : Rusticity


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where I spent my childhood"--essentially the archetypal shtetl.
Revising night: Elie Wiesel and the hazards of Holocaust theology by Manseau, Peter / Cross Currents
The semi-autobiographical Foer Wood plays is a studious introvert who spends most of the movie in the backseat of an old jalopy as two Ukrainian guides drive him around the countryside in search of a shtetl that was wiped out during the Holocaust.
A CHANGE OF HOBBIT ELIJAH WOOD COMES OUT SWINGING IN FIRST THREE ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
This was true even for some young women, as shown in Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl.
Children in global migrations by Fass, Paula S. / Journal of Social History
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