Shtetl

A shtetl or shtetele (שטעטל, in Yiddish, derived from the German städtlein, meaning "little town/city") was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: shtetlach) were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia, and Romania. A larger city, like Lemberg or Czernowitz, was called a shtot (German: stadt) (שטאָט).

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Yiddish - German - Town - Village - Jew - Holocaust - Central Europe - Eastern Europe - Plural - 19th century - Pale of Settlement - Russian Empire - Congress Kingdom of Poland - Galicia - Romania - City

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