Examples of shtetl in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 That was the solution as well for the headstones of the fake shtetl’s cemetery. — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021 In 2009, my dad and I went looking for my great-great-grandfather Zalman Rozman’s grave in Novi Veledniki, a small shtetl near Chernobyl dating back to 1545. — ELLE, 15 Mar. 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 Her voice is unmistakable, a Valley Girl’s vocal fry mixed with Bernie Sanders’s metropolitan shtetl twang. — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2022 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 He was born in 1896 in Poritzk, a shtetl in what is now northwestern Ukraine. — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021 See More

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