Bibliograph

The ghetto, a very short introduction, Bryan Cheyette

Type

Label

The ghetto, a very short introduction, Bryan Cheyette

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The ghetto

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1131880176

Responsibility statement

Bryan Cheyette

Series statement

Very short introductions, 648

Sub title

a very short introduction

Summary

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

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