old world view - where Ashkenazim lived in walled cities and swarmed all over each other for a few millenia. Russians, Poles and other hosts kept the Ashkenazim segregated in the shtetl.
new world view - any settlement with a high concentration of people of the Hebrew persuasion. Identifiable in any large metropolitan area in North America.
See also the Pale of Settlement and Lower East Side
new world view - any settlement with a high concentration of people of the Hebrew persuasion. Identifiable in any large metropolitan area in North America.
See also the Pale of Settlement and Lower East Side
My ancestors lived in the Lodz shtetl. My wife's ancestors were Litwaks and Galicianers, although every family had some Cossack or Tartar DNA.
We cooked a great brisket in the shtetl, and a pretty good borscht, too. You could hear the violins every night.
Your neighbors know everything about you and your entire family and lineage in the shtetl.
Many find a bizarre comfort in the shtetl, at once claustrophobic and comforting, as opposed to the terrifying life outside the walls.
When you go to an event at the shtetl, you can get a free lucky number pogrom, but the prizes aren't what you would expect.
We cooked a great brisket in the shtetl, and a pretty good borscht, too. You could hear the violins every night.
Your neighbors know everything about you and your entire family and lineage in the shtetl.
Many find a bizarre comfort in the shtetl, at once claustrophobic and comforting, as opposed to the terrifying life outside the walls.
When you go to an event at the shtetl, you can get a free lucky number pogrom, but the prizes aren't what you would expect.
by adam_before_eve June 10, 2006
refuge for nouveau riche douchebags fleeing the LA Unified School District - typically insurance salesmen or personal injury attorneys or some other self-motivated, uneducated tasteless buffoons
that hondler is so Calabasas. She furnished her house with everything that the designer could unload on her, and was crowing about what a deal she got, even though anyone else could see they unloaded crap on her.
He was a typical Calabasas resident - short, pushy, with kids who could do no wrong.
A typical Calabasas kid has all the toys and none of the integrity of an average middle-American citizen.
He was a typical Calabasas resident - short, pushy, with kids who could do no wrong.
A typical Calabasas kid has all the toys and none of the integrity of an average middle-American citizen.
by adam_before_eve September 10, 2005
n. School is a place to receive a type of education.
Often derided by lower achievers and mouth-breathing droolers.
Necessary preparation for a life beyond the subsistence level.
Can be a very entertaining place where you learn about social interaction, cooperation, achievement and self-discipline.
May be public or private in US, or private or public in UK.
v. to instruct
Often derided by lower achievers and mouth-breathing droolers.
Necessary preparation for a life beyond the subsistence level.
Can be a very entertaining place where you learn about social interaction, cooperation, achievement and self-discipline.
May be public or private in US, or private or public in UK.
v. to instruct
People who don't like school often end up working for people who do.
He dropped out of school and couldn't even get a job flipping burgers.
She had to leave school after she got knocked up.
He flunked out of school, which is pretty hard to do these days.
She was schooled in the ways of Hogwarts.
He dropped out of school and couldn't even get a job flipping burgers.
She had to leave school after she got knocked up.
He flunked out of school, which is pretty hard to do these days.
She was schooled in the ways of Hogwarts.
by adam_before_eve April 09, 2006
a fabulous visual artist that drew amazing comix - his characters also included Honeybunch Kaminsky and Pro Junior, along with Big Nurse
by adam_before_eve September 10, 2005
aka Brom, Brummagem, etc
a historical English city of great import that often gets a bad rap.
Queen of the West Midlands, King of the Hill, and you can fly out of there, too.
a historical English city of great import that often gets a bad rap.
Queen of the West Midlands, King of the Hill, and you can fly out of there, too.
I grew up in the Bull Ring in Birmingham, so people think I talk funny.
They named a town in Alabama after my city, so there is a Brom in the New World, too.
They named a town in Alabama after my city, so there is a Brom in the New World, too.
by adam_before_eve April 17, 2006
alternate definition: 1970's derogatory term for women's literature. Now archaic.
Concept was that writing was either literature or it was not literature, so any attempt to manufacture a subgroup was somehow denigrating the legitimate body of work.
Sprang from growth of Women's Studies programs at US universities.
Sometimes also used to describe Comparative Literature, although usage may have faded into obscurity.
Concept was that writing was either literature or it was not literature, so any attempt to manufacture a subgroup was somehow denigrating the legitimate body of work.
Sprang from growth of Women's Studies programs at US universities.
Sometimes also used to describe Comparative Literature, although usage may have faded into obscurity.
by adam_before_eve March 18, 2006
he bought the shoes and shirt but wasn't accepted so he found out about the downside of street cred.
Diluted standards and lowest common denominators are the dirty open secret of the downside of street cred.
Diluted standards and lowest common denominators are the dirty open secret of the downside of street cred.
by adam_before_eve September 10, 2005