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In the Jewish Diaspora, a Jewish quarter is the area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews. Jewish quarters, like the Jewish ghettos in Europe, were often the outgrowths of segregated ghettos instituted by the surrounding Christian authorities. A Yiddish term for a Jewish quarter or neighborhood is "Di yiddishe gas" (Yiddish: די ייִדדישע גאַס ), or "The Jewish street". Many European and Middle Eastern cities once had a historical Jewish quarter and some still have it. These include:
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In Europe
- Alfama and La Judiaría, Lisbon
- Aljama, Seville
- La Judiaría and Bairro de Monchique, Oporto
- Le Marais, Paris
- La Carrière-des-Juifs and Mont-Juif or Montjusieu, Marseille
- La Juiverie de Fourvière and La Guillotière, Lyon
- Saint-Seurin, Bordeaux
- La Juderia, Rhodes
- Josefov, Prague
- Kazimierz, Kraków
- Erzsébetváros, Budapest
- Jodenbreestraat, Amsterdam
- The Venetian Ghetto, Venice
- The Roman Ghetto, Rome
- Giudecca, Naples
- La Judeca (Giudecca), Reggio Calabria
- Tirone and Paraporto, Messina
- Meschita and Guzzetta, Palermo
- Judeca Suprana, Judeca Suttana and Piano di Giacobbe, Catania
- Iudeca (Giudecca), Enna
- La Jureca (Giudecca), Syracuse, Sicily
- Balat, European Istanbul
- Call Jueu de Girona, Girona
- Leopoldstadt, Wien
- Zhetel ghetto, Dzyatlava
In Asia
- Kuzguncuk, Asian Istanbul
- Karataş, İzmir
- Wadi Abu Jamil, Beirut
- Shanghai ghetto, Shanghai, a temporary Jewish refuge during WWII.
Other usage
In the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa there are a number of neighborhoods or small towns, generally in large cities or outlying communities of such, which are home to large concentrations of Jewish residents, much in the manner of old-world Jewish quarters or other ethnic enclaves, though without exclusive Jewish population.
In Argentina
- Once, Buenos Aires
In Venezuela
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