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Ghetto   /gˈɛtoʊ/   Listen
Ghetto

noun
(pl. ghettos, ghettoes)
1.
Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live.
2.
Any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping.  "No escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"
3.
A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.



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"Ghetto" Quotes from Famous Books



... on. He was back in the days when social New York foamed with beauty, when it held more loveliness to the square inch than any other spot on earth. He was back in the days when Fifth Avenue was an avenue and not a ghetto. ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus

... the cities to facilitate the supervision over them. Only well-deserving merchants and craftsmen, who have plied their trade honestly for five or ten years, should be allowed to reside outside the ghetto. The same category of Jews, in addition to those married to Christian women, should also be granted the right of acquiring landed property. The ghetto on the one end of the line, and baptism on the other—this medieval policy did not in the least ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... which sometimes degenerates into apathy and indifference. Whether it be a sign of feebleness of character, or of common sense, the fact is, that religious feuds have never been allowed to prevail among us. In no part of the world have the Jews enjoyed more freedom and tolerance than in the Roman Ghetto. The same feelings prevailed in imperial Rome, except for occasional outbursts of passion, fomented by the ...
— Pagan and Christian Rome • Rodolfo Lanciani

... obnoxious to the Thar, vendetta or blood-revenge. For salting the criminal's head, however, the soldiers seize upon the nearest Jew and compel him to clean out the brain and to prepare it for what is often a long journey. Hence, according to some, the local name of the Ghetto, Al-Mallah,the salting-ground. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... enterprise is sparked by the sunrise industries of high-tech and by small business people with big ideas—people like Barbara Proctor, who rose from a ghetto to build a multimillion-dollar advertising agency in Chicago; Carlos Perez, a Cuban refugee, who turned $27 and a dream into a successful importing business ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... exclaimed. As he stood, with bent head and grave looks, he was the typical Jew of the Ghetto; crafty, timid, watchful, cynical, cruel; his grizzled hair, close-clipped, crisp, and curly; his face pensive, and ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... been a great exodus from the Ghetto to Russia, and Warsaw can no longer be said to be a predominantly Jewish city. The dignified Semite in his black gaberdine and low-crowned hat is now only an occasional figure on the Jerozolimska and Nowy ...
— Europe—Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham



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