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Where Is Poland? | The Shtetl שטעטל‎
Chapter 7

The Shtetl שטעטל‎


Jews had been present in the Polishlands since the tenth century. The traditional Jewish communities mainly lived in small settlements called shtetls. In the nineteenth century, even as much as 80% of the world’s Jewish population lived in the Polish lands.

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