The ghetto : a very short introduction / Bryan Cheyette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheyette, Bryan, author.

Series:

Very short introductions ; 648.

Very short introductions ; 648

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic neighborhoods--History.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

Inner cities--History.

Inner cities.

Jewish ghettos--History.

Jewish ghettos.

Segregation--History.

Segregation.

Ghetto (The English word).

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 143 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

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. 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.

Contents:

1 Why ghetto? p. 1

2 The Age of the Ghetto p. 14

3 Ghettos of the imagination p. 39

4 Nazism and the ghetto p. 61

5 The ghetto in America p. 88

6 The global ghetto p. 118.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0198809956

9780198809951

OCLC:

1131880176