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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the
late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the
nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled
to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European
"ghettos", which enabled genocide, were crudely rehabilitated by
the Nazis during World War Two as if they were part of a benign
medieval tradition. In the United States, the word ghetto was
routinely applied to endemic black ghettoization which has lasted
from 1920 until the present. Outside of America "the ghetto" has
been universalized as the incarnation of class difference, or
colonialism, or apartheid, and has been applied to segregated
cities and countries throughout the world. In this Very Short
Introduction Bryan Cheyette unpicks the extraordinarily complex
layers of contrasting meanings that have accrued over five hundred
years to ghettos, considering their different settings across the
globe. He considers core questions of why and when urban, racial,
and colonial ghettos have appeared, and who they contain. Exploring
their various identities, he shows how different ghettos
interrelate, or are contrasted, across time and space, or even in
the same place. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions
series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in
almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect
way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors
combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to
make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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