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Definition of Ghettoes
1. ghetto [v] - See also: ghetto
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghettoes
Literary usage of Ghettoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Struggling for Ethnic Identity: Czechoslovakia's Endangered Gypsies by Rachel Tritt (1992)
"Over a thousand rural ghettoes existed in Slovakia, completely segregated from
mainstream society and without adequate water, sewage, electricity, ..."
2. Annual Convention by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1904)
"Charities in the City of New York, or who People's Reform have read the frequent
reports of the hor- Synagogue. rible congestion in the ghettoes of our ..."
3. The Jews of Iowa: A Complete History and Accurate Account of Their Religious by Simon Glazer (1904)
"In all other cities, they were compelled to live in airless, filthy, narrow
streets which were called ghettoes and subjected to open degradation ..."
4. The Bookman (1898)
"Through all the centuries that have passed, he has waddled through the ghettoes,
waxing fat and dispensing the joys of matrimony with no niggardly hand, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"A large proportion of the Jews in the European ghettoes reach old age. Transplanted
to the United States and subjected to the same influences that shorten ..."
6. The New Era (1874)
"In many places they are compelled to live in Jewries (ghettoes). The Jews of
Sardinia are allowed to carry on in their ghettoes trades, professions, ..."
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