Ghetto : the history of a word /

Few words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto." It was initially synonymous with two cities: Venice, where the word was first used in conjunction with the segregation of the Jews in 1516, and Rome, where the ghetto survived as a compulsory institution until the fall of the Papal States...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Jewish ghettos > History.
Ethnic neighborhoods > History.
Inner cities > History.
Inner cities > United States > History.
Segregation > History.
Ghetto (The English word)
Ghettos > Histoire.
Quartiers ethniques > Histoire.
Ségrégation > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Ethnic neighborhoods.
Inner cities.
Jewish ghettos.
Segregation.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The early history of the ghetto
  • The nineteenth-century transformation of the ghetto
  • The ghetto comes to America
  • The Nazi ghettos of the Holocaust
  • The ghetto in postwar America.

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