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shtetl
thumb|300px|An 1893 Isaak_Asknaziy#Selected_paintings|painting by the artist [[Isaak Asknaziy of a Jewish wedding with a band in a ]]
' or ' ( ; , ; pl. shtetelekh) is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The term is used in the context of pre-Second World War European Jewish societies as communities within the surrounding non-Jewish populace, and thus bears certain connotations of discrimination. (or , , or ) were mainly found in the areas that constituted the 19th-century Pale of Settlement in the
Kiryas Joel
village in Orange County, New York, United States
Williamsburg
neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, USA
Gyrmyzy Gasaba
town in Guba, Azerbaijan
Jewish quarter
area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews
Borough Park
neighborhood in New York City
Caulfield North
suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Jodenbuurt
The Jodenbuurt (Dutch: Jewish neighbourhood) is a neighbourhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. For centuries before World War II, it was the center of the Dutch Jews of Amsterdam — hence, its name (literally Jewish quarter). It is best known as the birthplace of Baruch Spinoza, the home of Rembrandt, and the Jewish ghetto of Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Thornhill
neighbourhood in the Greater Toronto Area
Caulfield South
suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia