Ghetto The History of a Word |
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| Author:
| Schwartz, Daniel B. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-73753-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2019 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.