Shtetl

In the mind of the anti-Jewish paranoid, some shabby bearded figure in a distant shtetl is a putative member of a secret world government: hence the enduring fascination of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So let's speculate who the 'top democrat' is that uses an odd idiom like 'shtetl'. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

That line about the "shtetl" mentality among Democrats said it all. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Jonathan Sarna, the prominent American-Jewish historian, likens the affluent Orthodox Jewish community of New York where Bernard Madoff found so many of his victims to "a kind of shtetl -- a very wealthy shtetl." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Richard, I obviously knew what "shtetl" means and didn't have to Google that. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

All this 'shtetl' talk is proof of subliminibal anti-semitism. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

The Yiddish speaking Jews of Warsaw could hardly have imagined that "the Jewish State" that emerged after the war with its "never again" mantra would finish off Yiddish culture considered a product of the "shtetl," - home to Jews in ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jane asked, her voice a little prickly, sounding like Yetta had back in the shtetl when Rahel went off with the older girls and left Yetta behind. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

She remembered all the men back in her shtetl who prayed each day, “Thank you, God, for not making me a woman.” ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

Yetta narrowed her eyes, thinking thoughts she never would have dreamed of back in the shtetl. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

Secretly, Yetta wondered if she should copy Jane, but that would probably look silly, an immigrant shtetl girl putting on airs. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

To be a girl in a shtetl in Russia, milking cows and daydreaming about revolution? ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

It was all of a piece, somehow, with the men back in her shtetl praying, “Thank you, God, for not making me a woman.” ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

Yetta had been ten when Rahel left their shtetl and went to work in the big city, Bialystok. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

They reminded Yetta all too much of the men back in her shtetl who thought they were holier than everyone else. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

She felt every bit as restless as she had back in the shtetl, milking cows. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

My ancestors lived in the [Lodz] [shtetl]. My wife's ancestors were Litwaks and Galicianers, although every family had some [Cossack] or Tartar DNA. We cooked a great brisket in the shtetl, and a pretty good [borscht], too. You could hear the violins every night. Your neighbors know everything about you and your entire family and lineage in the shtetl. Many find a bizarre comfort in the shtetl, at once claustrophobic and comforting, as opposed to the terrifying life outside the walls. When you go to an event at the shtetl, you can get a free lucky number [pogrom], but the prizes aren't what you would expect. ❋ Adam_before_eve (2006)

[Of course] I know [how to] [get there] - this is my Shtetl! ❋ 313ElmSt (2009)

"hey did you hear about tom? He [got laid] off, [the kids] [liked] him a lot. It's some... Bullshtetl" ❋ Woop_woop_ItsDrZ (2021)

"I get a [shtetl pass]. I once taught a Jewish girlfriend [remedial] Yiddish." ~Actual quote from the internet "[Abraham Lincoln] gets a shtetl pass. He freed the slaves, and he was named Abraham." ❋ Televangelist (2012)