Talk:Ghetto

I am not really sure about when the ghetto gates were closed from the inside or the outside. -- Davidme

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I don't see the relationshi from iron foundry to ghetto. I thought that the etimology was from (bor)ghetto (small city-quarter). -- Davidme

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"In somewhat more recent times, ghettos appeared primarily in the Western part of Tsarist Russia, in the so called Pale of Jewish settlement. Since Jews couldn't acquire land outside the ghetto, during periods of population growth, ghettos had narrow streets and tall, crowded houses. Residents had their own justice system. Around the ghetto stood walls that during pogroms were closed from the inside during Easter Week and from the outside during Christmas or Pesach. Often ghetto residents had to have a pass to go outside of the bounds of the ghetto."

For me it is complete nonsense. Closed from outside Ghettos never existed in Eastern Europe befiore Nazis. GH