All this 'shtetl' talk is proof of subliminibal anti-semitism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."] Reference

That line about the "shtetl" mentality among Democrats said it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."] Reference

Richard, I obviously knew what "shtetl" means and didn't have to Google that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."] Reference

So let's speculate who the 'top democrat' is that uses an odd idiom like 'shtetl'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."] Reference

And he did hear a sound rising up from the shtetl.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Goldstein: How the Kvetch Stole Chanukah] Reference

They started to create an East European shtetl in Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rachel Salamander.] Reference

Meir was born in 1894 in Didovshina, a small Ukrainian shtetl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracha Peli.] Reference

Maybe our ancestors were chased from the same shtetl, but I don't know that.    From Wordnik.com.  [B. Jeffrey Madoff: I'm Not That Madoff] Reference

And I was sure that the shtetl continued to exist parallel to my life in Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'] Reference

I am well aware that it all started in the shtetl, and it's not likely to stop any time soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hello ! Somebody Gave Me Your Number] Reference

Born in a shtetl in Poland, Rose, the daughter of a rabbi, came to the United States in 1836.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminism in the United States.] Reference

It is no coincidence, for instance, that the shtetl in her paintings looks deserted and abandoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elena Kabischer-Jakerson.] Reference

Before the war, when such a world still existed, his father's family were impoverished, traditional shtetl Jews.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]

The setting of the shtetl allows her to present the unvarnished truth of childhood, with all its joys and sadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature in Hebrew.] Reference

My mom is hip, trendy, and loves shopping, but maybe I inherited the spirit of my great-grandmother and shtetl living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avital Binshtock: Mayim Bialik's Latest Role: Green Mom] Reference

Or when they moved from the shtetl to the Lower East Side, they left their community institutions behind at the shtetl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By President In Session Of Conference On New Economy] Reference

The index to Life Is with People, a well-known book on the shtetl, has an entry that makes the point: “law, see Torah.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law in the United States.] Reference

Klezmer is a perfect fit for Singer's 1974 play about the folk figure of Shlemiel and the mythical East European shtetl of Chelm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in a Fool's Paradise] Reference

Among the first female students was the Viennese-born Hermine Ostersetzer, whose grandparents lived in a Galician shtetl near Brody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austria: Jewish Women Artists.] Reference

Her early poetry intertwines the memories of shtetl life in a Hasidic family with the realities of the secular immigrant experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malka Lee.] Reference

In 1910, after her father died, her shtetl was destroyed in a pogrom and her engagement ended, Devorah Baron immigrated to Palestine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devorah Baron.] Reference

Samuel, who came to South Africa at the age of seventeen or eighteen from a shtetl called Klykuoliai, became a successful businessman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helen Suzman.] Reference

At the same time, the theme of pogroms occupied a central place in their subject matter, thus imbuing shtetl images with apocalyptic traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artists: Russia and the Soviet Union.] Reference

I don't get it: If you think Tessa slept with Ivan and Lucy's real father is actually the shtetl fiddler, then why doesn't she have green skin?.    From Wordnik.com.  [a : b as c : d] Reference

Always “Izzy” to those who knew him, he was born Isador Feinstein in Philadelphia in 1907, a child of the great immigration from the shtetl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tireless on the Left, The Great I.F. Stone] Reference

Many adult characters have more famous faces, including those of Timothy Spall as Fagin (with a lilting Bukovina shtetl accent) and Sophie Okonedo as Nancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dickens Darkly Updated] Reference

His family idolized the lost shtetl life, he says, adding, "The Holocaust is always there, and if it shows up in my work, which it does frequently, I let it be.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Wild] Reference

In the shtetl - like workings of 47th Street, he is a kind of village elder, doling out solutions to tricky situations that can involve hard feelings and raw nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stone Age Lawyer : Diamonds Are a 47th Street Attorney's Best Friend] Reference

At age three, she moved to England with her mother, leaving her father (whom she knew only as “Jacob the Learned Bootmaker”) and the pogrom-threatened shtetl behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose Pastor Stokes.] Reference

If not Israel, I thoroughly recommend Australia, which has a very heimishe and pro-Israel community - particlarly in Melbourne, sometimes dubbed "The shtetl on the Yarra".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I.J. Singer spent his early years in the shtetl of Leoncin and his adolescent years in Warsaw, where he became caught up in the Haskalah, or J.wish enlightenment, movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yiddish Novel With Tolstoyan Sweep] Reference

I have dozens of cousins in Israel, the oldest generation of whom are survivors of the holocaust from a Polish shtetl, almost all of whose inhabitants perished in Treblinka.    From Wordnik.com.  [McKinney Loss=Morale Boost for AIPAC, Israeli Hawks, Cheney, and Bush] Reference