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What is a ghetto?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The first ghetto was in Venice. The word comes from the Italian (Venetian) 'gettare', (soft 'g'), to cast (as in casting metal) as there was a foundry in the area allocated to the Jews of Venice. German and Austrians pronounced the word with a hard 'g', a pronunciation which stuck, so that's why the 'h' was inserted, to keep the 'g' hard.