ghettos

1. 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 .)

Example Sentences

In the modern era, the character is associated with the 17th century pogroms in the Jewish ghettos of Prague.

From The Daily Beast

Among the masses, especially in the Northern ghettos, the situation remains about the same, and for some it is worse.

From The Daily Beast

Yet at this same time, Jews were being expelled in vast numbers from Spain and were confined to ghettos in Italy.

From The Daily Beast

Diaspora Jews—stuck in ghettos with retrograde Halachic norms—lacked these Hebrew things.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, 60 percent of the Roma are actually Italian citizens—citizens forced to live in ethnically segregated ghettos.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

Missions and chapels in the slums and synagogues in the ghettos have carried religion to the lowest classes.

From Project Gutenberg

This was the first ray that penetrated the Ghettos from without.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

The psychology of the refugees from Russian and Galician Ghettos, who come to live among us, is very hard for us to understand.

From Project Gutenberg