Jew townnoun
Meaning & use
colloquial (now potentially offensive even when used without derogatory intent).
- 1592–A name for: an area inhabited predominantly by Jewish people. In later use, esp. such an area within a larger urban environment; a neighbourhood with predominantly Jewish residents.
- 1592
Unto this is adioyning the Iewes Towne, wherein are thirteene thousand men, women, and Children, all Iewes.
, translation of Hist. Dr. Faustus xxii. 41 - 1612
Eliberis, in old time a great and well peopled citie.., built and inhabited by the Iewes, and therefore was called the Iewes towne.
, translation of L. T. de Mayerne, Gen. Hist. Spaine v. 156 - 1736
A Place..called the Jews Town, because it is inhabited by none but that Nation, and Armenians.
London Spy Revived 1 September 1/1 - 1799
A fire broke out last night in the Jew-town.
Sun 16 August - 1890
His description of Jewtown and its sweat-shops, in which miserable Jews spend eighteen hours a day at slop-work for the clothing manufacturers.
Chicago Tribune 24 December 5 - 1949
In any of the hundreds of slum neighborhoods: in Jewtown, Micktown, Wop-town, Hunkytown, Niggertown.
, Cry Tough! i. 22 - 1976
The little bastards..run home to Jewtown so they can eat their kosher baloney.
, Marilyn the Wild (1990) i. iv. 53 - 1986
Celtic Crescent was now the centre of Cork's ‘Jewtown’.
, Land not Theirs (1993) iii. 37 - 2006
Although there are only a handful of Jewish families still left in Kochi.., the area round the synagogue is still called Jewtown.
Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 29 April (Travel section) 3
