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Title: Ghetto: The History of a Word

Author : Daniel B. Schwartz

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ISBN-10 : 0674737539

ISBN-13 : 9780674737532

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Ghetto: The History of a Word BY Daniel B. Schwartz

Read Online and Download Ghetto: The History of a Word. 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 "ghetto." Its early uses centered on two cities: Venice, where it referred to the segregation of the Jews in 1516, and Rome, where the ghetto survived 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 term, 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 .

Ghetto: The History of a Word by Daniel B. Schwartz

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