Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): Cheyette Bryan (University Of Reading)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198809951
Pages: 160 Pages, 10 Black-And-White Illustrations
Publication Date: 11/1/2020
Series: Very Short Introductions
Category: Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing