Thirty-Three Owners of One House

Some of the Jewish houses had many owners; in one of them Ruth counted fourteen in 1900, in another as many as thirty-three. In ninety of the houses the dwellings on the various floors were connected to one another by passages, so that one went from house to house rather than across the street. It was precisely because the Jews were not allowed to live elsewhere that these famous houses arose, full of passages, tiny rooms and holes.