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<p><b><i>Shtetl</i></b> or <b><i>shtetel</i></b> ( ; , ; <a href="page.php?w=Grammatical_number">pl.</a> <i>????????</i> shtetelekh) is a <a href="page.php?w=Yiddish">Yiddish</a> term for small towns with substantial <a href="page.php?w=Ashkenazi_Jews">Ashkenazi Jewish</a> populations which <a href="page.php?w=Eastern_European_Jewry">existed in Eastern Europe</a> before <a href="page.php?w=the_Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>. The term is used in the context of pre-Second World War European Jewish societies as communities within the surrounding non-Jewish</p><p>
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