shtetl

They lived outside in their own community, known as a shtetl.

But this was the place, after all, and these were the children of the shtetl.

Until the mid-20th century, the town had a significant Jewish community, being a shtetl.

Within a few minutes the entire shtetl, with children, was on the other side of the river near the forest.

Jews had little need to go outside the shtetl community.

In the past it was a shtetl with a large Jewish population.

For a long time it was a shtetl with significant Jewish population.

How hard was it for the writers to go home to the shtetl they left 40 years ago?

Coming from a Polish shtetl, this man had never seen a black person before.

The transition from the world of the shtetl changed him forever.

They had never seen a shtetl like this one.

These people came from shtetls - a shtetl is a little community.

His world is a suburban shtetl on the edge of the prairie.

His naive style particularly suited the subject matter of the shtetl.

She calls it the family shtetl, though her mother says it's more of a kibbutz.

So, in this sense, the shtetl was both here and not here.

His parents were Jews of the shtetl and the pogroms.

(See Shtetl for more on the history of these towns).

It was a Friday evening when, exhausted, with our last energy, we finally somehow got to the shtetl.

A man in the shtetl had been spreading stories about another man.

Soon there was talk that in a short while everyone would be forcibly removed from the shtetl.

Even my grandparents, in the shtetl in Russia, had hot water.

When asked how his last name is pronounced, he says it rhymes with "shtetl."

It’s pure coincidence, but he happens to come from the same shtetl as my grandparents.

Only in the shtetl are the moral coordinates clear.