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Zusatztext "Uncovering lines of connection and distinction stretching from Cinquecento Venice to apartheid Johannesburg via Nazi-controlled Bialystok and segregated Brooklyn! The Ghetto in Global History provides essential new insights into the making! remaking and unmaking of the ghetto as idea! social experience and technology of power."Daniel Matlin! King's College London! UK"Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe Trotter! Jr bring together many of the most important historians on ghettos in The Ghetto in Global History. The volume as a whole is an admirable attempt to breathe new life into the study of the classical tradition."Bryan Cheyette! University of Reading! UK Informationen zum Autor Wendy Z. Goldman is Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, United States. She is a social and political historian of Russia, and her publications include Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II (2015, ed. with Donald Filtzer), Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia (2011), Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression (2007), and Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia (2002). Joe William Trotter, Jr . is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University, United States. He also directs Carnegie Mellon’s Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) and is a past president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. His publications include Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh Since World War II (2010, co-authored with Jared N. Day), Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (second edition, 2007), and The African American Urban Experience: From the Colonial Era to the Present , with Earl Lewis and Tera W. Hunter (2004). Zusammenfassung Across history the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies. This volume is structured around four case studies: the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe; the Nazi use of ghettos; the enclosure of African Americans in segregated areas in the U.S.; and the segregation of blacks in South Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The Ghetto Made and Remade Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter Part I: The Early Modern Jewish Ghetto 1 - Ghetto: Etymology, Original Definition, Reality, and Diffusion Benjamin Ravid 2 - The End to Confessionalism: Jews, Law, and the Roman Ghetto Kenneth Stow 3 - The Early Modern Ghetto: A Study in Urban Real Estate Bernard Cooperman 4 - Venice: A Culture of Enclosure, a Culture of Control. The Creation of the Ghetto in the Context of Early Cinquecento Samuel D. Gruber Part II: Nazi Ghettos 5 - "There was no work, we only worked for the Germans": Ghettos and Ghetto labor in German-occupied Soviet territories Anika Walke 6 - Hunger in the Ghettos Helene Sinnreich 7 - Am I My Brother’s Keeper? Jewish Committees in the Ghettos of the Mogilev district and the Romanian authorities in Transnistria, 1941 to 1944 Gali Mir-Tibon 8 - Jewish Resistance in Ghettos in the former Soviet Union during the Holocaust Zvi Gitelman and Lenore J. Weitzman 9 - When (and why) is a ghetto not a "ghetto"? Concentrating and Segregating Jews in Budapest, 1944 Tim Cole Part III: U.S. and African American Ghettos 10 - Shifting "Ghettos": Established Jews, Jewish Immigrants and African-Americans in Chicago 1880-1960 Tobias Brinkman 11 - "Is a Negro district, in the midst of our fairest c...
