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ghettoAny deprived area occupied by a minority group, whether voluntarily or not. Originally a ghetto was the area of a town where Jews were compelled to live, decreed by a law enforced by papal bull 1555. The term came into use 1516 when the Jews of Venice were expelled to an island within the city which contained an iron foundry. Ghettos were abolished, except in Eastern Europe, in the 19th century, but the concept and practice were revived by the Germans and Italians 1940-45. |
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| ABOUT THE BOOK: Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, takes place in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, in the city's large Jewish ghetto. The first important member was Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743–1812), son of a money changer in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt, Germany. In early 1941 the Nazis decided that Terezin, surrounded by walls and a moat and with a prison and barracks, was ideal for a Jewish ghetto. |
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