ghettos

Cultural  

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.)

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Example Sentences

Ghettos were neighborhoods of a town or city that were usually fenced-off, surrounded with barbed wire, and then filled with the Jews of the surrounding areas.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The word 'modern' stirred the souls of these refugees from the old Ghettos like a trumpet; unbelief, if only in ghosts, was oxygen to the prisoners of a tradition of three thousand years.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

Thereat arose a new and stranger commotion throughout all the Ghettos, Jewries, and Mellahs.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

History became the consolation of the exiles from Spain who found themselves pent up within the walls of the Ghettos, which were first built in the sixteenth century.

From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel

His satires did much to rouse the Russian Jews to a new sense of the reality of life, and Gordon was the apostle of enlightenment in the Ghettos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various