ghettos


Originally, areas of medieval cities in which Jews (see also Jews) were compelled to live. Today the term usually refers to sections of American cities inhabited by the poor. (See inner city.)

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How to use ghettos in a sentence

  • They lived like beasts in great squalid labor-ghettos, festering in misery and degradation.

    The Iron Heel | Jack London
  • Missions and chapels in the slums and synagogues in the ghettos have carried religion to the lowest classes.

    Society | Henry Kalloch Rowe
  • This was the first ray that penetrated the ghettos from without.

  • Events occurring in countries undiscovered when Europe confined the Jews in ghettos are known to us in the course of an hour.

    The Jewish State | Theodor Herzl
  • The psychology of the refugees from Russian and Galician ghettos, who come to live among us, is very hard for us to understand.

    Comrade Yetta | Albert Edwards