How to Use shtetl in a Sentence

shtetl

noun

• His world is the shtetl of the New York diamond district.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2019
• That was the solution as well for the headstones of the fake shtetl’s cemetery.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• He was born in 1896 in Poritzk, a shtetl in what is now northwestern Ukraine.
  — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• The story is set two hundred and fifty years ago, in a Polish shtetl.
  — Deborah Treisma, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• As many of us have begun to look back on our roots, the food of the shtetl has made a comeback in recent years.
  — Rachel Ringler, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• How did Boyle decide what town in the former Yugoslavia would serve as the setting for Tevye’s shtetl?
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• Strasberg, twenty-one years old, was born in a Polish shtetl and brought up on the Lower East Side.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• One of her brothers’ friends lived in a neighboring shtetl, where the soldiers forced the Jews into a mass grave and shot them.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2019
• Apart is about a shtetl—a village of Jews—in 19th century Europe.
  — Eli Reiter, Wired, 21 Jan. 2021
• In this masterful retelling of Peretz’s Yiddish tale, Goldin takes readers back to an old world shtetl.
  — Penny Schwartz, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• Out of the shtetl and into the mainstream of European life the new citizen-Jew duly emerged.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
• What if the Yiddish-speaking poets and songwriters had electric guitars and amps in the shtetl?
  — Joe Baur, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• Over time, gefilte fish became synonymous with the shtetl and with Sabbath and holiday meals.
  — Rachel Ringler, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• One nightclub was a repurposed synagogue in of the town of Eišiškės, a former Jewish shtetl.
  — Pete Brook, WIRED, 10 June 2014
• The shtetl is renamed Gedenkrovka in the novel (in what is now Ukraine), but the horrific events that devastate the Jewish village are largely the same.
  — Rachel Raczka, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• Peres says his early idol was his grandfather Zvi, the rabbi of the Polish shtetl of Vishneva, who later perished in the Holocaust.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
• Its early donors might have been very rich, but the money was mostly new, and the donors themselves were likely themselves not far removed from the farm, the tenement, or, in the case of the many Jews supporting the Met, the shtetl.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Oct. 2020
• Born into a Polish shtetl in 1886 and trained as a tailor, the young man traveled overland across the European continent at the turn of the century, hoping to escape the pogroms of the old world for the promise of the new.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 25 Nov. 2021
• The play follows the life of dairyman Teyve and his family in Anatevka, a fictional shtetl outside Kyiv, until the anti-Semitic czar kicks then out.
  — Mike Wagenheim, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
• The Polish shtetl was created by having the designers read the script and look for references of 1930’s Poland, and having a historian fact check their work.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 17 May 2022
• Soutine, born in a shtetl in the Lithuanian part of Russia (now Belarus) in 1893, the tenth of eleven children in a family of menders (a caste below tailors), was an outlier all his life.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
• Those of us who take an interest in changes in contemporary language are in a condition not unlike that of the village idiot of Frampol, a shtetl in Poland.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• The film has a strong opening in the sepia-toned past in the fictional shtetl of Schlupsk where Herschel is a very unsuccessful ditch digger whose shovels keep breaking underneath him.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• In her shtetl, only young boys were indulged in their maniacal pursuit of mastery that led them to spend every waking moment poring over the Talmud.
  — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
• Trybal is like a modern millennial shtetl, where gesundheits fly.
  — Rachel Levin, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2019
• My father lived in a type of shtetl in Bedford Stuyvesant, once a home for poor Jewish immigrants and others long before its recent hipster gentrification.
  — Longreads, 29 July 2019
• Her voice is unmistakable, a Valley Girl’s vocal fry mixed with Bernie Sanders’s metropolitan shtetl twang.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2022
• Flash forward to 1906 when my own great grandfather escaped the deadly circumstances of life in a Ukraine shtetl to join his family and townspeople who had previously emigrated to the Promised Land.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Aleichem both celebrates human comedy and chronicles inhuman tragedy, while spinning colorful webs of language that bring alive the teeming world of the Eastern European shtetl.
  — Jean Zimmerman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017

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