Jewish quarter (diaspora)

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" ( ), or "The Jewish street". Many European and Middle Eastern cities once had a historical Jewish quarter and some still have it. These include:

In Europe

Austria

• Vienna — Leopoldstadt

Belarus

• Dziatlava — Zhetel ghetto

Belgium

• Antwerp — Joods Antwerpen (35,000 Jews before 1940, 15,000 nowadays)

Czech Republic

• Prague — Josefov

France

• Bordeaux — Saint-Seurin
• Lyon — La Juiverie de Fourvière and La...... ...
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