ABSTRACT
The most famous ghetto in history is that of Frankfort on the Main, in Germany. As the ghetto became more and more an autonomous community, there arose, as differentiations from the synagogue, several well-defined functionaries. There was one fact which contributed probably as much as any other toward the communal solidarity of the ghetto, and that was the fact that the civil authorities treated the ghetto as a community. Besides the synagogue there were a number of other institutions that made up the framework of the ghetto community. The Jewish community discouraged and even punished members who would avail themselves of the power of the civil courts or civil law against fellow-members of the ghetto. The dead were treated with kindly reverence, and the cemetery was left undisturbed even though the growing population within the ghetto walls made every foot of land precious.
