Jewish quarter (diaspora)

From the late medieval and early modern period onwards Jews, the only remaining dhimmi, were increasingly confined to ghettolike quarters, such as the mellah in Morocco, the hara in Algeria and Tunisia and the qa'a in Yemen.

Though it was probably founded in order to protect and not to punish the Jews, they resented the transfer and viewed it as bitter exile and manifestation of a painful segregation.

From the Jewish point of view, concentration of Jews within a limited area offered a level of protection from outside influences or mob violence.

In the English city of Norwich, the Jewish quarter was close to the castle, as a source of protection in times of local pogroms.

According to USHMM archives, "The Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone.

An 1880 watercolour of the Roman Ghetto by Ettore Roesler Franz .
The Jewish Cemetery of the Mellah of Fez
Prague-Josefov , which was demolished between 1893 and 1913
The Warsaw Ghetto in May 1941
Jewish Quarter of Třebíč , Czech Republic
The entrance, called the "Port de la Calandre", to the Jewish Quarter in Avignon, France .
Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Troyes , France
Jewish cemetery of Legnica , Poland
Jewish Quarter of Caltagirone, Italy
The Judengasse , Frankfurt in 1868
El Ghriba , Djerba island, Tunisia.
Artifacts from the Jewish Quarter, Casablanca, Morocco .
Colonial Calle de los Judíos ( Jewish Street ) in Lima , Peru , painting of 1866 by Manuel A. Fuentes and Firmin Didot, Brothers, Sons & Co. University of Chicago Library . [ 14 ]