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An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.).

Origin: Borrowed from the name of the Venetian Ghetto, whose etymology and original source language is . Compare. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.

concentrating the Jewish community into ghettoes. The Germans not only started the ghettoes, but they had also opened a concentration camp
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#3·Apr 27, 2026

An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.

Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe.
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