A shtetl or shtetele ("little town/city" in Yiddish language) was typically a small town or village with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: shtetlach) 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.
Famous communities
Traditional names are given, with present-day names and localisations in parentheses.
Shtots
- Breslau (Wrocław, Poland)
- Brest, or Brisk (Belarus) [1]
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
- Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
- Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland)
- Glogau (Głogów, Poland)
- Iaşi (Romania)
- Kiev, Ukraine
- Kishinev (Chişinău, Moldova)
- Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania)
- Königsberg (Kaliningrad, today in Russia)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Lemberg (L'viv, Ukraine)
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Odessa (Ukraine) [2]
- Pinsk (Belarus)
- Posen (Poznań, Poland)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Riga (Latvia) [3]
- Vienna (Austria)
- Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) [4]
- Warsaw (Poland)
Shtetls
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