!!!Ghetto

Ghetto, a part of town to which Jews were formerly restricted. The 
first ghettos were established in Austria in the 17%%sup th/%  
century, in Vienna at the Unterer Werd (1624). Jewish people were 
evicted in 1670, and since then this area has been called Leopoldstadt 
(2%%sup nd/%  district of Vienna). In 1661 a ghetto was established in 
Eisenstadt and a large Jewish community lived there until 1938. Other 
towns with large Jewish communities were Graz, Hohenems, Wiener 
Neustadt and villages in the province of Burgenland. In the 
19%%sup th/%  century the laws that forced Jews to live in ghettos 
were abolished. Under the National Socialists, ghettos were again 
established in Poland.

!Literature
H. Gold (ed.), Geschichte der Juden in Oesterreich, 1971; 
H. Andics, Die Juden in Wien, 1988.


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