000913954 000__ 02901cam\a2200385\i\4500 000913954 001__ 913954 000913954 005__ 20210515184047.0 000913954 008__ 190305t20192019mauab\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000913954 010__ $$a 2019007150 000913954 020__ $$a9780674737532$$q(hardcover) 000913954 020__ $$a0674737539$$q(hardcover) 000913954 035__ $$a(OCoLC)on1090010329 000913954 035__ $$a913954 000913954 040__ $$aMH/DLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dOCLCO$$dYDX$$dOCLCF$$dOCLCQ$$dYUS 000913954 042__ $$apcc 000913954 043__ $$an-us--- 000913954 049__ $$aISEA 000913954 05000 $$aHT221$$b.S34 2019 000913954 08200 $$a307.3/36609$$223 000913954 1001_ $$aSchwartz, Daniel B.,$$d1974-$$eauthor. 000913954 24510 $$aGhetto :$$bthe history of a word /$$cDaniel B. Schwartz. 000913954 264_1 $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2019. 000913954 300__ $$a266 pages :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c25 cm 000913954 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000913954 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 000913954 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 000913954 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000913954 5050_ $$aThe 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. 000913954 520__ $$aFew words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto." It was initially synonymous with two cities: Venice, where the word was first used in conjunction with the segregation of the Jews in 1516, and Rome, where the ghetto survived as a compulsory institution until the fall of the Papal States in 1870, long after it had ceased to exist elsewhere. Ghetto: The History of a Word offers a fascinating account of the changing nuances of this slippery word, from its coinage to the present day. It details how the ghetto emerged as an ambivalent metaphor for "premodern" Judaism in the nineteenth century and how it was later revived to refer to everything from densely populated Jewish immigrant enclaves in modern cities to the hyper-segregated holding pens of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. We see how this ever-malleable word traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, with pit stops on New York's Lower East Side and Chicago's Near West Side until it came to be more closely associated with African Americans than Jews. Chronicling this sinuous trans-Atlantic odyssey, Daniel B. Schwartz reveals the history of ghettos to be part of a larger story of struggle and argument over the meaning of a name. Paradoxically, the word "ghetto" came to loom larger in discourse about Jews when Jews no longer were required to live in legal ghettos. At a time when the Jewish associations have been largely eclipsed, Ghetto retrieves the history of a dangerously resilient word.--$$cProvided by publisher. 000913954 650_0 $$aJewish ghettos$$xHistory. 000913954 650_0 $$aEthnic neighborhoods$$xHistory. 000913954 650_0 $$aInner cities$$xHistory. 000913954 650_0 $$aInner cities$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000913954 650_0 $$aSegregation$$xHistory. 000913954 650_0 $$aGhetto (The English word) 000913954 85200 $$bgen$$hHT221$$i.S34$$i2019 000913954 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:913954$$pGLOBAL_SET 000913954 980__ $$aBIB 000913954 980__ $$aBOOK