The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction

by Bryan Cheyette

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198809956
• ISBN13: 9780198809951
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"