shtetl
noun [ C ] (also shtetel) uk/ˈʃtet.əl/ us/ˈʃtet.əl/ shtetlach, shtetelach, shtetlekh, shtetls or shtetels
（旧称）东欧地区犹太人聚居的小镇
in the past, a small town in eastern Europe where a lot of Jewish people lived
My grandmother's sister married someone from a shtetl who didn't even speak Polish. 我祖母的姐姐嫁给了一个来自犹太小镇的人，他甚至不会说波兰语。
Those shtetls had been wiped out in World War II.
- More examples
- Lestschinsky was a shtetl boy, born and bred.
- I have been to Auschwitz and the empty shtetels in Poland.
- My family emigrated to Edinburgh slightly over 100 years ago, from the shtetls of Lithuania.