A shtetl (or schtetl , or stetl , Yiddish שטעטל, in the plural שטעטלעך, schtetlech , dialectal German: Städtel/Städtl/Städtle/Städtli , “small town”, German standard: Städtchen/Städtlein , “small town”), is a small town, a large “village” (properly dorf in Yiddish) or a district Juif in Europe of the East before the Second world war.

A shtetl sheltered: 1000 with: 20000 people, in Eastern Poland (old territories of the east of Poland located today in Bielorussia and Ukraine), in particular in Galicie, but also in Ukraine, Bielorussia and Lithuania. The principal language practiced in the shtetls was the Yiddish. The shtetl lived in chump end Autarcie, with a mode of production close to that of the kibbutzes of post-war period.

During the Shoah, the majority of the Jews living in the shtetlekh/schtetlech located in the zones of occupation Nazi be were off-set in concentration camps, of work or of extermination, and the shtetls were given up and destroyed.

Internal bond

• Synagog of Gabin (1710-1939) (Synagog out of wooden of Gabin)

External bond

• Vishki, has shtetl in Latvia