Definitions for shtetl
shtetl

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1. shtetlnoun

   A village or small town; -- usually referring to Jewish towns in Eastern Europe.

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1. shtetlnoun

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

2. Etymology: From שטעטל, from שטאָט (compare German Stadt), from stat, from stadiz, from stetis-.

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1. Shtetl

   A shtetl or shtetel (English: ; Yiddish: שטעטל, romanized: shtetl (singular); שטעטלעך, romanized: shtetlekh (plural)) is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The term is used in the contexts of peculiarities of former East European Jewish societies as islands within the surrounding non-Jewish populace, and bears certain socio-economic and cultural connotations. Shtetls (or shtetels, shtetlach, shtetelach or shtetlekh) were mainly found in the areas that constituted the 19th-century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire as well as in Congress Poland, Austrian Galicia, Kingdom of Romania and in the Kingdom of Hungary.In Yiddish, a larger city, like Lviv or Chernivtsi, is called a shtot (Yiddish: שטאָט), and a village is called a dorf (Yiddish: דאָרף). Shtetl is a diminutive of shtot with the meaning "little town". Despite the existence of Jewish self-administration (kehilla / kahal), officially there were no separate Jewish municipalities, and the shtetl was referred to as a miasteczko (or mestechko, in Russian bureaucracy), a type of settlement which originated in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and formally recognized in Russian Empire as well. For clarification, the expression "Jewish miasteczko" was often used.The shtetl as a phenomenon of Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe was destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

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1. Shtetl

   A shtetl, was a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe before the pogroms and 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. A larger city, like Lemberg or Czernowitz, was called a shtot; a smaller village was called a dorf.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shtetl in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shtetl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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References

1. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=shtetl
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shtetl
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtetl
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=shtetl