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The Promised Land by Mary Antin Pale of Settlement 1791-1917 Shtetl •! Small town/Outside of large cities •! Center of traditional Jewish life •! Life centers around synagogue and marketplace “Fiddler on the Roof” •! Russian-Jewish Author Sholem Aleichem •! Yiddish language Yiddish Language •! German-based language, spoken by Jews in Central and Eastern Europe •! Written in Hebrew alphabet. Borrows from Hebrew language and Polish as well Yiddish in English •! •! •! •! •! •! •! Chutzpah Goy Klutz Maven Nosh Schlep Schlock Schmooze Schmuck Shtick Tush Yenta Pogroms •! Mob violence. Complicity of government •! Assassination of Czar Alexander II (1881) •! Pogroms of 1903-1906 •! Kishinev
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