ghetto

     

Racial Segregation

Trivia about ghetto

  • Now a term for an urban minority area, this word originally referred to an area set aside for medieval Jews
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Prague, Czech Republic.) Josefov, named for an emperor, is Prague's version of this area, to which Jews were restricted
  • A heroic uprising of April 1943 is named for this Jewish section of Warsaw