Courtyard neighborhood

Beit David courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem
Map of Mea Shearim, a courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem

Courtyard neighborhoods are Jewish neighborhoods built in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] The inward-facing and defensible traditional urban housing of the Near East, ordinarily occupied by an extended family, was adapted in these cases to serve a close-knit but genealogically unrelated community.

  1. ^ "10 דברים על שכונת חצר". Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved March 31, 2013.

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