Ghetto - The History of a Word

Few words are as ideologically charged as ghetto, a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters, dense immigrant enclaves, Nazi holding pens, and black neighborhoods in the United States. Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with struggle and argument over the slippery meaning of a word.

About the author

Daniel B. Schwartz is author of The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image, which was cowinner of the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize for the best first book in Jewish Studies and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History. He is Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at George Washington University and worked on Ghetto as a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress and as the Sosland Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Summary

Few words are as ideologically charged as ghetto, a term that has described legally segregated Jewish quarters, dense immigrant enclaves, Nazi holding pens, and black neighborhoods in the United States. Daniel B. Schwartz reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with struggle and argument over the slippery meaning of a word.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel B Schwartz, Daniel B. Schwartz, Schwartz Daniel B.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780674737532
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73753-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book; History, European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Judaism, Historical & comparative linguistics, General and world history, Historical and comparative linguistics