Jewish quarter (diaspora)
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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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[edit] In Europe
- Belgium
- Antwerp — Joods Antwerpen (35,000 Jews before 1940, 15,000 nowadays)
- Bordeaux — Saint-Seurin
- Lyon — La Juiverie de Fourvière and La Guillotière
- Marseille — La Carrière-des-Juifs and Mont-Juif or Montjusieu
- Paris — the Pletzl in Le Marais district
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- Catania — Judeca Suprana, Judeca Suttana and Piano di Giacobbe
- Enna — Iudeca (Giudecca)
- Messina — Tirone and Paraporto
- Naples — Giudecca
- Padua — Paduan Ghetto
- Palermo — Meschita and Guzzetta
- Reggio Calabria — La Judeca (Giudecca)
- Rome — Roman Ghetto
- Syracuse — La Jureca (Giudecca)
- Venice — Venetian Ghetto
- Belmonte — Judiaria
- Castelo de Vide — Judiaria
- Lisbon — Alfama and Judiaria
- Oporto — Judiaria and Bairro de Monchique
- Avila — Judería
- Barcelona — Judería
- Besalú — Judería
- Caceres — Judería
- Calahorra — Judería
- Córdoba — Judería
- Estella Lizarra — Judería
- Girona — Call Jueu de Girona
- Hervás — Judería
- Jaen — Judería
- León — Judería
- Monforte de Lemos — Judería
- Oviedo — Judería
- Palma de Mallorca — Judería
- Plasencia — Judería
- Ribadavia — Judería
- Segovia — Aljama
- Sevilla — Judería
- Tarazona — Aljama
- Toledo — Aljama
- Tortosa — Judería
- Tudela — Judería
- Valladolid — Aljama
- City of London — Old Jewry
- Winchester — Jewry Street
[edit] In Africa
- Cairo — Harat Al-Yahud Al-Qara’In and Harat Al-Yahud
[edit] In Asia
- China
- Shanghai — Shanghai ghetto, a temporary Jewish refuge during WWII.
- India — Goa, Cochin, Calcutta, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Mumbai and New Delhi (temporarily Shimla until Indian independence)
[edit] In America
- Caracas — San Bernardino, Los Chorros, Altamira, Los Caobos and Sebucán
[edit] Other regions
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.
