Juderia
Definitions
n. The Jewish quarter of a city.
Example Sentences
On hot afternoons when my father-in-law, Morris Mizrahi, was a little boy in Rhodes, Greece, he and the other boys would run through the streets of the Juderia (the Jewish section of the city) to the harbor for a swim after Hebrew School." (Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More by Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood)
Languages of Origin
- Ladino
Who Uses This
- Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire
Regions
- North America
Dictionaries
- None
Alternative Spellings
Zhuderia
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