shtetl

A shtetl (, diminutive form of Yiddish shtot שטאָט, "town", similar to the South German diminutive "Städtel/Städtle", "little town"), was a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe before the pogroms and the Holocaust. Shtetls (Yiddish plural: שטעטלעך, shtetlekh) were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania.

The death of the shtetl
The Death of the Shtetl:
Kibbutz and Shtetl: The History of an Idea
From suburb to shtetl : the Jews of Boro Park
The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb (review)
Life is with people: the culture of shtetl
Life Is With People : The Culture of the Shtetl
In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine
Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik
Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation by Susan A. Glenn