Shtetls

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What do we mean by shtetls?

A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe.

Old world view - where Ashkenazim lived in walled cities and swarmed all over each other for a few millenia. Russians, Poles and other hosts kept the Ashkenazim segregated in the shtetl. new world view - any settlement with a high concentration of people of the Hebrew persuasion. Identifiable in any large metropolitan area in North America. See also the Pale of Settlement and Lower East Side Urban Dictionary

Modernly used as slang for neighborhood (or more closely; ‘hood) among Jewish youth. Urban Dictionary

A kid friendlier version of "shit"; just a funny word that when spoken makes you giggly and all fuzzy inside. Urban Dictionary

When a non-Jew is considered 'down with the Jews' and is given some degree of leeway by his Jewish friends to make Jew jokes and/or latkes. A portmanteau of shtetl, the term for Jewish ghettos in Europe, and ghetto pass, a term expressing a similar concept with regard to African Americans. Urban Dictionary

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The word "shtetls" in example sentences

Jewish and Gentile filmmakers told stories set in eastern European shtetls and the Lower East Side. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Sher's performance is also the magnetic centre of a play which, even if a little aware of its own cleverness, reminds us that the movies are a product of Yiddish culture, and that the eternal battles between art and commerce were played out in the shtetls over a century ago. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Does Gross think he was dropped by parachute onto this earth, disconnected from a past that, yes, originates in the Middle East, and not in the shtetls or in the suburbs of Boston where he was born? ❋ David Harris (2012)

I can also vividly remember my own mother getting advice from her own stern mother, Grandmom Goldberg, whose wisdom came from the shtetls of Russia. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

However I feel as if I would be insulting countless generations of my ancestors -- most of whom toiled away in shtetls so that I could eat Cheetos and get paid to write about Four Loko -- by referencing the Shoah. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

However I feel as if I would be insulting countless generations of my ancestors -- most of whom toiled away in shtetls so that I could eat Cheetos and get paid to write about Four Loko-- by referencing the Shoah. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

In the shtetls of Eastern Europe, I wonder if their kids ever had Christmas envy. ❋ Wendy Sachs (2010)

They became more protective of what they felt were their true roots, although very few Orthodox practices would have been recognizable to Moses, or at least a Moses who had never been to the shtetls of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ❋ Mark Jacobson (2010)

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Russian rioters descended on Jewish shtetls to kill thousands, and rape and injure many thousands more, in marauding expeditions for which a distinctive term was devised: pogroms. ❋ Todd Gitlin (2010)

He quit his job at the hardware store to work for a construction company, thus becoming the first Weingarten male, probably since the shtetls of 19th-century Russia, who actually knows how to fix stuff. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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)

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