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Ghetto - The History of a Word (Hardcover)
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Just as European Jews were being emancipated and ghettos in their
original form-compulsory, enclosed spaces designed to
segregate-were being dismantled, use of the word ghetto surged in
Europe and spread around the globe. Tracing the curious path of
this loaded word from its first use in sixteenth-century Venice to
the present turns out to be more than an adventure in linguistics.
Few words are as ideologically charged as ghetto. Its early uses
centered on two cities: Venice, where it referred to the
segregation of the Jews in 1516, and Rome, where the ghetto
survived until the fall of the Papal States in 1870, long after it
had ceased to exist elsewhere. Ghetto: The History of a Word offers
a fascinating account of the changing nuances of this slippery
term, from its coinage to the present day. It details how the
ghetto emerged as an ambivalent metaphor for "premodern" Judaism in
the nineteenth century and how it was later revived to refer to
everything from densely populated Jewish immigrant enclaves in
modern cities to the hypersegregated holding pens of Nazi-occupied
Eastern Europe. We see how this ever-evolving word traveled across
the Atlantic Ocean, settled into New York's Lower East Side and
Chicago's Near West Side, then came to be more closely associated
with African Americans than with Jews. Chronicling this sinuous
transatlantic odyssey, Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history
of ghettos is tied up with the struggle and argument over the
meaning of a word. Paradoxically, the term ghetto came to loom
larger in discourse about Jews when Jews were no longer required to
live in legal ghettos. At a time when the Jewish associations have
been largely eclipsed, Ghetto retrieves the history of a
disturbingly resilient word.
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