shtetl

• “In the mind of the anti-Jewish paranoid, some shabby bearded figure in a distant shtetl is a putative member of a secret world government: hence the enduring fascination of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.”

  The 2,000-Year-Old Panic

• “That line about the "shtetl" mentality among Democrats said it all.”

  Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."

• “Richard, I obviously knew what "shtetl" means and didn't have to Google that.”

  Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."

• “All this 'shtetl' talk is proof of subliminibal anti-semitism.”

  Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."

• “So let's speculate who the 'top democrat' is that uses an odd idiom like 'shtetl'.”

  Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."

• “Jonathan Sarna, the prominent American-Jewish historian, likens the affluent Orthodox Jewish community of New York where Bernard Madoff found so many of his victims to "a kind of shtetl -- a very wealthy shtetl.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When the Big Spenders Fail, Who Will Save Jewish Charity?

• “The Yiddish speaking Jews of Warsaw could hardly have imagined that "the Jewish State" that emerged after the war with its "never again" mantra would finish off Yiddish culture considered a product of the "shtetl," - home to Jews in”

  Home

• “It was all of a piece, somehow, with the men back in her shtetl praying, “Thank you, God, for not making me a woman.””

  Simon & Schuster: Uprising

• “Yetta had been ten when Rahel left their shtetl and went to work in the big city, Bialystok.”

  Simon & Schuster: Uprising

• “They reminded Yetta all too much of the men back in her shtetl who thought they were holier than everyone else.”

  Simon & Schuster: Uprising

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