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Jewish quarter (diaspora): what Wikipedia removed

Jewish quarters in the diaspora include the ghettos Nazi Germany reestablished across occupied Europe during World War II. In 2015 the opening said these ghettos existed “for the purpose of segregation, persecution, terror, and exploitation of Jews, mostly in Eastern Europe.” Today the opening’s account of Jewish quarters no longer states this purpose, though the word survives once in the body. A reader today does not learn that terror was named among the Nazis’ stated purposes for the ghettos.

The word “occupation” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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occupation02220
terror01110

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • This image caption survives essentially unchanged, aside from British versus American spelling.
  • The phrase changed from ‘Middle Eastern’ to ‘Near Eastern’ cities and added that some still have Jewish quarters today, without dropping the core claim.
  • The statement that Nazi Germany’s ghettos served the purpose of segregation, persecution, terror and exploitation of Jews is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 369209769):

An 1880 watercolor of the Roman Ghetto by Ettore Roesler Franz . 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” ( Template:Lang-yi ), or “The Jewish street”. Many European and Middle Eastern cities once had a historical Jewish quarter and some still have it. These include:

2025 (revision 1298099549):

Area of a city traditionally inhabited by Jews An 1880 watercolour of the Roman Ghetto by Ettore Roesler Franz . In the Jewish diaspora , a Jewish quarter (also known as jewry , juiverie , Judengasse , Jewynstreet , Jewtown , Judería or proto- ghetto ) 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 or Muslim authorities. A Yiddish term for a Jewish quarter or neighborhood is “Di yiddishe gas” ( Yiddish : די ייִדישע גאַס ), or “The Jewish quarter.” While in Ladino , they are known as maalé yahudí , meaning “The Jewish quarter”. Many European and…

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