Ghetto: The History of a Word

by Daniel B Schwartz and Daniel B. Schwartz

Book Overview

Just as European Jews were being emancipated and ghettos in their original form--compulsory, enclosed spaces designed to segregate--were being dismantled, use of the word ghetto surged in Europe and spread around the globe. Tracing the curious path of this loaded word from its first use in sixteenth-century Venice to the present turns out to be more than an adventure in linguistics.

Few words are as ideologically charged as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737539
• ISBN13: 9780674737532
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"