Ghetto Geto

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~ GHETTO or in Italian Spanish
~ GETO   id+ modern euphemism for SLUM
             formerly it denoted
  MANDATORY RESIDENTIAL AREAS FOR JEWS
  hx> in 1516 JEWS WERE EXPELLED FROM THE CITY OF VENICE
         TO AN ISLAND KNOWN TO THIS DAY KNOWN AS
      CAMPO DEL GHETTO NUOVO
  in 1797 NAPOLEON FORBADE IMPOSED GHETTOS BUT JEWISH
     FAMILIES CONTINUED TO LIVE THERE
  THE ISLAND HAD A FOUNDRY AND SOME POSTULATE THAT
  lat    JECTUS or
         IACTUS for CASTING evolved into
         GHETTO
  note   I prefer the idea that the word
         GHETTO relates to the
  it     BORGHETTO for LITTLE TOWN
  sug>   BURGH BOURGEOIS               sug> RACISM
  MANY CITIES IMITATED VENICE BUT ALSO
  note THE EXISTENCE OF VOLUNTARY GHETTOS
       IN NEW YORK AMSTERDAM etc