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It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
Jerry Leiber

Meaning of "shtetl" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SHTETL

Yiddish, little town.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SHTETL

shtetl  [ˈʃtetəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHTETL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shtetl is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHTETL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

shtetl

Shtetl

Shtetls (Yiddish: שטעטל, shtetl (singular), שטעטלעך, shtetlekh (plural)) were small towns with large Jewish population which existed in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Shtetls 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. In Yiddish, a larger city, like Lemberg (Lviv) or Czernowitz, was called a shtot (Yiddish: שטאָט, German: Stadt); a village was called a dorf (דאָרף‎).

Definition of shtetl in the English dictionary

The definition of shtetl in the dictionary is a small Jewish community in Eastern Europe.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHTETL


battle
ˈbætəl
bimetal
ˈbaɪˌmetəl
bottle
ˈbɒtəl
capital
ˈkæpɪtəl
crystal
ˈkrɪstəl
dental
ˈdɛntəl
digital
ˈdɪdʒɪtəl
environmental
ɪnˌvaɪərənˈmentəl
experimental
ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəl
fundamental
ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəl
horizontal
ˌhɒrɪˈzɒntəl
hospital
ˈhɒspɪtəl
hostel
ˈhɒstəl
incremental
ˌɪnkrɪˈmɛntəl
little
ˈlɪtəl
mental
ˈmɛntəl
metal
ˈmɛtəl
oriental
ˌɔːrɪˈɛntəl
pettle
ˈpetəl
semimetal
ˌsemɪˈmetəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHTETL

shrublike
shrug
shrug off
shrugged
shrugging
shrunk
shrunken
shtchi
shtetel
shtetelach
shtetlach
shtick
shticky
shtik
shtook
shtoom
shtuck
shtum
shtumm
shtup

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHTETL

atlatl
axolotl
conepatl
exptl
intl
Ixtaccihuatl
Iztaccihuatl
Kwakiutl
Nahuatl
natl
Prandtl
Quetzalcoatl
rotl

Synonyms and antonyms of shtetl in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shtetl» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHTETL

Find out the translation of shtetl to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shtetl from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shtetl» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

shtetl
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

shtetl
570 millions of speakers

English

shtetl
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

shtetl
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

shtetl
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

штетл
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

shtetl
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

shtetl
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

shtetl
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Shtetl
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schtetl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

shtetl
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

shtetl
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shtetl
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

shtetl
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

shtetl
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शॉटलल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

shtetl
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

shtetl
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Sztetl
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

штетл
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

shtetl
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

shtetl
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Shtetl
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

shtetl
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shtetl
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shtetl

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHTETL»

The term «shtetl» is regularly used and occupies the 90.900 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHTETL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shtetl» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shtetl» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shtetl

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2 QUOTES WITH «SHTETL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shtetl.
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Sholom Aleichem
You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
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Jerry Leiber
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHTETL»

Discover the use of shtetl in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shtetl and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant ...
Examines the role of Jewish women immigrants in the garment industry in early twentieth-century America.
Susan A. Glenn, 1991
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The Shtetl book: an introduction to East European Jewish ...
Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe.
Diane K. Roskies, David G. Roskies, 1979
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The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish ...
This volume, a sequel to the author's A Traveler Disguised: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century, further develops the analysis of the fictionality and aesthetic autonomy of the classics of modern Yiddish fiction.
Dan Miron, 2000
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Shtetl
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and ...
Eva Hoffman, 2007
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Shtetl Finder: Jewish Communities in the 19th and Early 20th ...
Lists over 2,000 Jewish communities in eastern Europe, giving locations and lists the names of some Jews known to have lived in each community as compiled from newspapers, book subscriber lists, directories, etc.; of great value for ...
Chester G. Cohen, 1989
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The Shtetl: New Evaluations
This is the first book published in the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series.
Steven T. Katz, 2006
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The Death of the Shtetl
The author recounts the destruction of small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942.
Yehuda Bauer, 2009
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Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of ...
Masterfully interwoven in this tale are colorful vignettes featuring Kotik’s family and neighbors, including rabbis and zaddikim, merchants and the poor, hasidim and mitnaggedim, scholars and illiterates, believers and heretics, ...
Yekhezkel Kotik, David Assaf, 2008
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A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas
She also furnishes a brief introduction for each novella, giving the historical and biographical background and offering a critical interpretation of the work.
Ruth R. Wisse, 1986
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Luboml: The Memorial Book of a Vanished Shtetl
There is also this book, Like hundreds of such memorial tornes written by survivors and emigres. Luboml: The Memorial Book of a Vanished Shtetl illuminates a rich and varied world destroyed in the Holocaust.
Berl Kagan, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHTETL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shtetl is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ukrainian Jews Building 'Shtetl' For Refugees Fleeing The War
The save haven, named Anatevka, is being built by Ukrainian Jews and would be close to a “shtetl”, which are small towns with large Jewish populations. «JP Updates, Jul 15»
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Jewish refugees in Ukraine start building 'shtetl' - Tevye's modern …
Just like Tevye the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof, some contemporary Ukrainian Jews will soon find themselves living in a “shtetl” called Anatevka. Currently ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
3
Charedim plan exodus from London shtetl
Charedi activists are exploring the possibility of setting up a new community outside London because of the shortage of housing among a rapidly expanding ... «Jewish Chronicle, Jul 15»
4
How to build an American shtetl — See: Bloomingburg, NY
Launch a shuttle service so Chasidim who don't drive or don't own cars can get from the new shtetl to shopping outlets and other Chasidic communities in the ... «thejewishchronicle.net, Jun 15»
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How to build an American shtetl
Launch a shuttle service so chasidim who don't drive or don't own cars can get from the new shtetl to shopping outlets and other chasidic communities in the ... «New Jersey Jewish Standard, May 15»
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A Shtetl Grows in Upstate New York Town of Bloomingburg
Launch a shuttle service so Hasidim who don't drive or don't own cars can get from the new shtetl to shopping outlets and other Hasidic communities in the ... «Jewish Daily Forward, May 15»
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'A Shtetl in Manhattan'
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 75, and her husband, Bert Pogrebin, 81, have been living in their co-op apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side since 1970. «Jewish Daily Forward, May 15»
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Bringing the shtetl to the stage
And for their 36th production, they're once again bringing to the stage the much-beloved classic Fiddler on the Roof. The shtetl of Anatevka will come alive on ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Feb 15»
9
Shtetl of honour
FROM the 1600s until 1939 Poland was the global centre of the Jewish people, home to the world's largest Jewish population and its greatest nexus of religious, ... «The Economist, Oct 14»
10
New Square to Neighbors: Stay Away from Our Holy Shtetl!
You know the Village of New Square — that holy shtetl that keeps Judaism alive and well, that isolated Mecca of Hasidism and Follow-the-Rebbe-Blindly-ism? «Jewish Daily Forward, Oct 14»

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