page_title: Jewish quarter (diaspora)
section_title: Europe
hierarchical_section_title: Jewish quarter (diaspora) / Europe
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance to the Avignon, France, Jewish Quarter. Called the Port de la Calandre.
context_page_description: 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 quarter." While in Ladino, they are known as maalé yahudí, meaning "The Jewish quarter".
  Many European and Near Eastern cities once had a historical Jewish quarter and some still have it. The history of the Jews in Iraq is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c 586 BC. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities.
  Jewish quarters in Europe existed for a number of reasons. In some cases, Christian authorities wished to segregate Jews from the Christian population so that Christians would not be "contaminated" by them or so as to put psychological pressure on Jews to convert to Christianity. From the Jewish point of view, concentration of Jews within a limited area offered a level of protection from outside influences or mob violence.
context_section_description: Austria
  Vienna — Leopoldstadt
  Belarus
  Dziatlava — Zhetel ghetto
  Minsk — Minsk ghetto (appr. 100,000 Jews, local and those, deported from Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic), during the Second World War
  Belgium
  Antwerp — Joods Antwerpen (35,000 Jews before 1940, 15,000 nowadays)
  Czech Republic
  Prague — Josefov
  France
  Bordeaux — Saint-Seurin
  Draguignan — La Juiverie de Draguignan (fr)
  Lyon — La Juiverie de Fourvière and La Guillotière
  Marseille — La Carrière-des-Juifs and Mont-Juif or Montjusieu
  Paris — the Pletzl in Le Marais district
  Les Josiols is a former Jewish quarter situated north of Mirabel-aux-Baronnies
  Germany
  Frankfurt
  Leipzig (Brühl)
  Speyer
  Worms
  Greece
  Rhodes — La Juderia
  Hungary
  Budapest — Erzsébetváros
  Italy
  Caltagirone  — Iudeca (Giudecca)
  Catania — Judeca Suprana, Judeca Suttana and Piano di Giacobbe
  Enna — Iudeca (Giudecca)
  Messina — Tirone and Paraporto
  Naples — Giudecca
  Padua — Paduan Ghetto
  Palermo — Meschita and Guzzetta
  Reggio Calabria — La Judeca (Giudecca)
  Rome — Roman Ghetto
  Syracuse — La Jureca (Giudecca)
  Venice — Venetian Ghetto
  Netherlands
  Amsterdam — Jodenbuurt (Amsterdam)
  Amsterdam — Jodenbreestraat (until World War II)
  Amsterdam — Buitenveldert (contemporary)
  Poland
  Kraków — Kazimierz
  Warsaw — Warsaw Ghetto
  Portugal
  Belmonte — Judiaria
  Castelo de Vide — Judiaria
  Lisbon — Alfama and Judiaria
  Oporto — Judiaria and Bairro de Monchique
  Romania
  Bucharest — Văcăreşti/Dudeşti
  Spain
  Ávila — Judería
  Barcelona — Call
  Bellpuig — Call
  Besalú — Call
  Caceres — Judería
  Calahorra — Judería
  Córdoba — Judería
  Estella-Lizarra — Judería
  Girona — Call Jueu de Girona
  Hervás — Judería
  Jaén — Judería
  León — Judería
  Monforte de Lemos — Judería
  Oviedo — Judería
  Palma de Mallorca — Call
  Jewish quarter of Inca (Mallorca) - Call Jueu d´Inca
  Plasencia — Judería
  Ribadavia — Judería
  Segovia — Aljama
  Sevilla — Judería
  Sos del Rey Católico — Judería
  Tarazona — Aljama
  Jewish quarter of Toledo
  Tortosa — Call
  Tudela — Judería
  Valladolid — Aljama
  Turkey
  European Istanbul — Balat
  Izmir - Karataş
  United Kingdom
  City of London — Old Jewry
  Winchester — Jewry Street
caption: The entrance, called the "Port de la Calandre", to the Jewish Quarter in Avignon, France.
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