A lot of the Orthodox Jews living in Brooklyn seem to think that they are indeed living in an 18th century European ghetto, so it’s certainly possible that they did.
Not really interested, as long as we are in agreement that you don’t actually have any kind of moral objection to calling people terms that mean they are collaborators with the people who want to oppress them and that you don’t actually find such terms “particularly ugly”, which at this point it seems like we are.