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An 1880 watercolor of the Roman Ghetto by Ettore Roesler Franz.

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:

[edit] In Europe

The Josefov of Prague, which was demolished between 1893 and 1913.

• 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

[edit] In Asia

• Kuzguncuk, Asian Istanbul
• Karataş, İzmir
• Wadi Abu Jamil, Beirut
• Shanghai ghetto, Shanghai, a temporary Jewish refuge during WWII.

[edit] 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.

[edit] In Argentina

• Once, Buenos Aires

[edit] In Venezuela

• San Bernardino, Caracas
• Los Chorros, Caracas
• Sebucán, Caracas
• Kuala lumpur[Malaya]