Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1916 — Amsterdam Ghetto Doomed. [ARTICLE]

Amsterdam Ghetto Doomed.

The inexorable housing reformer has reached the famous Amsterdam Ghetto, and is making a first assault on the miniature Jewish state that has existed for more than three centuries in Holland’s capital on the Zuyder Zee pnd has constituted for the modern tourist one ,of the sights of the city. One of the most thickly populated quarters, the part known as the “island” of L’llenburg, has been condemned and is gradually being cleared of its several thousand inhabitants. Plans have been drawn up for the erection of 360 new dwellings in another quarter of the city, half of which number will be let at below $1.20 a, week, the commune or state adding 20 to 30 cents in some cases,. ■ ,