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The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of 'the ghetto' over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book allows readers to draw thought-provoking comparisons across time and space among ghettos that are not usually studied alongside one another.
The volume is structured around four main case studies, covering the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern Europe, the Nazis' use of ghettos, the enclosure of African Americans in segregated areas in the United States, and the extreme segregation of blacks in South Africa. The contributors explore issues of discourse, power, and control; examine the internal structures of authority that prevailed; and document the lived experiences of ghetto inhabitants. By discussing ghettos as both tools of control and as sites of resistance, this book offers an unprecedented and fascinating range of interpretations of the meanings of the "ghetto" throughout history. It allows us to trace the circulation of the idea and practice over time and across continents, revealing new linkages between widely disparate settings.
Geographically and chronologically wide-ranging, The Ghetto in Global History will prove indispensable reading for all those interested in the history of spatial segregation, power dynamics, and racial and religious relations across the globe.
Contents
List of figures
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List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Ghetto Made and Remade
Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter
Part I: The Early Modern Jewish Ghetto
1 - Ghetto: Etymology, Original Definition, Reality, and Diffusion
Benjamin Ravid
2 - The End to Confessionalism: Jews, Law, and the Roman Ghetto
Kenneth Stow
3 - The Early Modern Ghetto: A Study in Urban Real Estate
Bernard Cooperman
4 - Venice: A Culture of Enclosure, a Culture of Control. The Creation of the Ghetto in the Context of Early Cinquecento
Samuel D. Gruber
Part II: Nazi Ghettos
5 - "There was no work, we only worked for the Germans": Ghettos and Ghetto labor in German-occupied Soviet territories
Anika Walke
6 - Hunger in the Ghettos
Helene Sinnreich
7 - Am I My Brother's Keeper? Jewish Committees in the Ghettos of the Mogilev district and the Romanian authorities in Transnistria, 1941 to 1944
Gali Mir-Tibon
8 - Jewish Resistance in Ghettos in the former Soviet Union during the Holocaust
Zvi Gitelman and Lenore J. Weitzman
9 - When (and why) is a ghetto not a "ghetto"? Concentrating and
Segregating Jews in Budapest, 1944
Tim Cole
Part III: U.S. and African American Ghettos
10 - Shifting "Ghettos": Established Jews, Jewish Immigrants and
African-Americans in Chicago 1880-1960
Tobias Brinkman
11 - "Is a Negro district, in the midst of our fairest cities, to become connotative of the ghetto...?": Using Corpus Analysis to Trace the "Ghetto" in the Black Press, 1900-1930
Avigail Oren
12 - Constrained But Not Contained: Patterns of Everyday Life
and the Limits of Segregation in 1920s Harlem
Stephen Robertson
13 - The American Ghetto as an International Human Rights Crisis: The Fight Against Racial Restrictive Covenants, 1945-1948
Jeffrey Gonda
14 - Unmaking the Ghetto: Community Development and Persistent Social Inequality in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia
Brian Purnell
Part IV: Urban Locations, Apartheid, and the Ghetto in Southern Africa
15 - "Their World Was a Ghetto:" Space, Power and Identity in Alexandra, South Africa's Squatters' Movement, 1946-47
Dawne Curry
16 - Citizens, not Subjects: Spatial Segregation and the Making of Durban's African
Working Class
Alex Lichtenstein
17 - Location Culture in South Africa
Gavin Steingo
Conclusion: Common Themes and New Directions
Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter
Index
