Shtetl

GPTKB entity

Statements (30)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Type of settlement
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Ashkenazi_Jews
gptkbp:culturalSignificance Center of Jewish religious, cultural, and social life
gptkbp:declinedAfter Persecution
Modernization
Emigration
gptkbp:defines Small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust
gptkbp:depictedIn gptkb:Fiddler_on_the_Roof
Works of Sholem Aleichem
gptkbp:destroyedBy gptkb:The_Holocaust
gptkbp:etymology Yiddish word meaning 'little town'
gptkbp:existedUntil gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:feature gptkb:cemetery
gptkb:synagogue
Market square
Cheder (Jewish school)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Shtetl
gptkbp:languageSpoken gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:location gptkb:Central_Europe
gptkb:Eastern_Europe
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Judaism
Jewish history
Yiddish literature
gptkbp:plural Shtetlach
gptkbp:population Hundreds to several thousand
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkb:Pale_of_Settlement
Pogroms
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Yiddishland
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7