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Shtetl
Yiddish: small town, village. A small town with a substantial Jewish population, or a Jewish ghetto, in the Yiddish-speaking parts of Europe (central or eastern Europe). Most of the shtetlach were wiped out in the Holocaust. The Jewish genealogy website JewishGen hosts or links to a lot of sites devoted to individual shtetls. See ShtetLinks on their site.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Religion
- Category: Judaism
- Company: Jewfaq.org
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