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
In the modern era, the character is associated with the 17th century pogroms in the Jewish ghettos of Prague.
Superman Is Jewish: The Hebrew Roots of America's Greatest Superhero | Rich Goldstein | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAmong the masses, especially in the Northern ghettos, the situation remains about the same, and for some it is worse.
Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | Alex Haley | January 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet at this same time, Jews were being expelled in vast numbers from Spain and were confined to ghettos in Italy.
Diaspora Jews—stuck in ghettos with retrograde Halachic norms—lacked these Hebrew things.
In fact, 60 percent of the Roma are actually Italian citizens—citizens forced to live in ethnically segregated ghettos.
They lived like beasts in great squalid labor-ghettos, festering in misery and degradation.
The Iron Heel | Jack LondonMissions and chapels in the slums and synagogues in the ghettos have carried religion to the lowest classes.
Society | Henry Kalloch RoweThis 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 HerzlThe 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
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