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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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In all his works, Sholom Aleichem conjures up imaginary tales about men, women and children--inventions, yes, but never far removed from life in the shtetls and townships of his youth and of his wanderings.
Problem: As a writer for the Jewish newspaper Forward informed me, the hora is a Romanian folk dance that was popularized in Israel and has now spread to Jewish communities around the world, but it is not known for having been danced in the former shtetls of eastern Europe.
We were peasant children right out of the shtetls of New Jersey and Queens screaming, "You want to know the truth about Columbia University, they're a bunch of liberal imperialists
 
 
 
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