Jewish ghetto
Walled ethnic neighborhood
A Jewish ghetto was a restricted urban area where Jews were required or compelled to live, separated from the general population.
The term originated with the segregated quarter established in Venice in 1516, and such enforced neighborhoods existed throughout European history, most notoriously under Nazi occupation when ghettos served as holding areas before deportation to concentration camps.
The word now sometimes appears in discussions of any ethnically segregated urban neighborhood, though this broader usage can be controversial given the term's historical weight.
- synagoguesJewish houses of worship
- Pale of SettlementMandated Jewish territory, Russia
- VeniceLagoon city, northeastern Italy
- PragueCzech Republic's chief city
- narrow streetsConstricted urban thoroughfares
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- Venetian historyVenice, doges, Doge's Palace, Grand Canal, Rialto
- Venetian Lifedoge, doges, gondoliers, Grand Canal, Rialto
- Hungarian HistorySaint Stephen, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Magyars, Hungarian flag, Hungarian Revolution
- VeniceGrand Canal, Rialto Bridge, Doge's Palace, gondola, St. Mark's Basilica
- Dutch JewsOtto Frank, Anne Frank House, Anne Frank, Spinoza, Amsterdam
- Emilia-RomagnaBologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Ferrara
Jewish ghettosafe haven
Protected place of shelter
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