Words similar to shtetl

Example sentences for: shtetl

How can you use “shtetl” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

My father came to America from the shtetl just about a hundred years ago, and almost immediately left the Jewish life behind.
The shtetl in Belarus that my father left to come to America as a boy, over 100 years ago, certainly bears no traces of my origins--if it still exists.
The critics also praise the museum's somewhat eclectic displays--the shtetl wedding dresses, the Woody Allen clips.
The discontinuity between Jewish life in the Russian shtetl in 1897 and Jewish life in the Watergate Apartments in Washington in 1997 must be the greatest one-century gap in Jewish life since the Exodus.
Most of his characters, despite Orthodox childhoods, began their rebellion against God before World War II, in the '20s and '30s when Jews were stepping out of shtetl culture for the first time in a thousand years.