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How shtetl often is described ("________ shtetl")
- closed
- smallest
- backward
- yiddish
- sleepy
- polish
- distant
- transplanted
- galician
- entire
- hasidic
- old
- century
- neighbouring
- obscure
- small
- impoverished
- miserable
- romanian
- little
- eastern
- nearby
- idealized
- belorussian
- lithuanian
- ukrainian
- tiny
- russian
- remote
- lost
- european
- static
- premodern
- native
- familiar
- east
- rural
- typical
- muddy
- urban
- literary
- poor
- traditional
- provincial
- bleak
- neighboring
- whole
- isolated
