Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small Jewish town or village in Eastern Europe, especially before World War II.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A village or small town; -- usually referring to Jewish towns in Eastern Europe.
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- noun A
Jewish village or smalltown , especially one in EasternEurope .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the mind of the anti-Jewish paranoid, some shabby bearded figure in a distant shtetl is a putative member of a secret world government: hence the enduring fascination of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
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In the mind of the anti-Jewish paranoid, some shabby bearded figure in a distant shtetl is a putative member of a secret world government: hence the enduring fascination of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
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In the mind of the anti-Jewish paranoid, some shabby bearded figure in a distant shtetl is a putative member of a secret world government: hence the enduring fascination of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
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In the mind of the anti-Jewish paranoid, some shabby bearded figure in a distant shtetl is a putative member of a secret world government: hence the enduring fascination of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
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So let's speculate who the 'top democrat' is that uses an odd idiom like 'shtetl'.
Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution." Ann Althouse 2008
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That line about the "shtetl" mentality among Democrats said it all.
Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution." Ann Althouse 2008
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That line about the "shtetl" mentality among Democrats said it all.
Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution." Ann Althouse 2008
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Jonathan Sarna, the prominent American-Jewish historian, likens the affluent Orthodox Jewish community of New York where Bernard Madoff found so many of his victims to "a kind of shtetl -- a very wealthy shtetl."
When the Big Spenders Fail, Who Will Save Jewish Charity? 2008
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Richard, I obviously knew what "shtetl" means and didn't have to Google that.
Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution." Ann Althouse 2008
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All this 'shtetl' talk is proof of subliminibal anti-semitism.
Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution." Ann Althouse 2008
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