What's the difference between ghetto and jewry?

Ghetto


Definition:

  • (n.) The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
  • (2) Goldsmith's ancestors, who include the Rothschilds, rose from the Frankfurt ghettos to become wealthy and prominent international entrepreneurs.
  • (3) The black and Latino communities have been gelling down baby hairs – the shorter, softer hairs on the hairline – for decades, but the styling technique was filed by the fashion world under “ghetto” until its wearers were white.
  • (4) In the ghetto, a church rally by the leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People had ended abruptly to the anger of his audience.
  • (5) But these have come with their own problems: despite the improvements in individual living conditions, there is a growing realisation that the RDP housing programme has reinforced apartheid era segregation, continuing to consign the poor to ghettos at the furthest edges of the city.
  • (6) Although one response is a paranoidlike reaction, aggression is also displayed directly in an attempt at mastery of the overwhelming frustration and life-threatening aspects of the ghetto.
  • (7) It's the sobering story of Benjamin Murmelstein, the last president of the Jewish Council in Theresienstadt ghetto, the concentration camp in the city of Terezín.
  • (8) Another photo album of the Warsaw ghetto taken by a German soldier calls itself a "cultural document for Adolf Hitler".
  • (9) When world champion boxer Muhammad Ali announced that he aspired to became “a black Henry Kissinger”, and that he only used his boxing skills to improve the lot of other African American men from the ghetto, he became an exception.
  • (10) Lots of people said it was going to be like a ghetto, but it's not like that at all.
  • (11) Her videos have been "accessorised with black dancers" and she uses US street slang like "rachet" (ghetto-diva) in her lyrics.
  • (12) Middle-class Britain has been shocked by the hidden reality of welfare ghettos revealed by TV programmes such as Benefits Street, Iain Duncan Smith is expected to say as he welcomes a Bank of England report claiming that his welfare-to-work reforms are bearing fruit.
  • (13) We are increasingly dividing our children through our school system, creating ghettos of privilege and under-privilege.
  • (14) It's understandable that people who now live on the spot that was once the Kovno ghetto , where close to 35,000 Jews were herded, starved and eventually led to their deaths, would not want to be constantly reminded of the fact.
  • (15) But there's no nostalgie de la boue, I don't go to the ghetto to look for people."
  • (16) Basically they were put in the ghetto in 1941 and in September 1942 ... they were all put on the cattle trains.
  • (17) A study has been reported on 5 years of experience in a community mental health center with a career escalation training program for indigenous workers in a ghetto community.
  • (18) Speaking outside court she said: "Mahmood got me and my team completely intoxicated and persuaded me to act the part of a bad, rough ghetto girl.
  • (19) In a speech in Manchester, Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, will warn against the country "sleep-walking" into a "New Orleans-style" quagmire of "fully fledged ghettoes".
  • (20) Qinghai is dotted with resettlement centres, many on the way to becoming ghettos.

Jewry


Definition:

  • (n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The proposed rework was a “seriously retrograde step” – “a colossal mistake, and a dangerous one.” The opposition leader validated arguments Jewish groups, including the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, have raised this past week against the proposed RDA changes.
  • (2) I didn't buy the State of Israel being the recompense for the murder of European Jewry, recompense not being quite the right word, of course.
  • (3) Nevertheless, he reckons he knows enough to deny three key, defining aspects of the Holocaust: first, that Jews were killed in gas chambers at Auschwitz, second, that Hitler directly ordered their slaughter and third that there was any systematic plan to destroy European Jewry.
  • (4) So when her eyes widen while Hitler rants about "international Jewry" it can hardly be out of surprise at his lethal rhetoric.
  • (5) The head of the executive council of Australian Jewry, Peter Wertheim, said it was a “common misconception” that section 18C prohibited any kind of offence and insult.
  • (6) White House defends Trump Holocaust statement that didn't mention Jews Read more Spicer claimed “by and large the president has been praised” for the brief statement released by the White House press office, which represented a break from past precedent as both George W Bush and Barack Obama had invariably mentioned the targeting of Jews by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust , which represented the systematic genocide of European Jewry.
  • (7) It is also absurd to ignore the role played by the mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was a war criminal and encouraged Hitler to exterminate European Jewry.” A spokesman for the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, however, rejected Netanyahu’s framing.
  • (8) He is acting for himself, a struggle, he likes to believe, of the English David against the Goliath of world Jewry.
  • (9) Peter Wertheim, the executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, who has been active in a broadly-based community campaign against the RDA changes, said on Friday that he saw no connection between Brandis’s statement this week on east Jerusalem and the discrimination fracas.
  • (10) It is almost as though the fate of French Jewry is seen as a cipher for widespread, even existential, fears about the future of Europe itself.
  • (11) Jewish leaders testified at an earlier round of public hearings in August, where Peter Wertheim, from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said scrutiny of kosher certification in Europe had “often been used as a cloak for persecution and discrimination against the Jewish community”.
  • (12) One third of world Jewry was exterminated in the Holocaust.
  • (13) The Nazis drew up a kind of macabre shopping list, spanning Europe and beyond, and British Jewry was on it.
  • (14) But Nikos Michaloliakos, the party's leader has publicly questioned the veracity of Nazi gas chambers and concentration camps and Chyrsi Avgi symbols have been found on vandalised memorials commemorating Greek Jewry.
  • (15) Corbyn’s outspoken support for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, together with his frequent appearing on platforms with, and alleged support for, Islamist and other controversial speakers who have espoused antisemitic and even Holocaust-denying views ( such as in the cases of Raed Salah and Paul Eisen respectively ), has inevitably meant that his victory has been received with shock and even horror by substantial sections of British Jewry.
  • (16) The Holocaust was the systematic genocide of European Jewry by Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

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