Title The emergence of Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust / Dan Michman ; translated by Lenn J. Schramm

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 191 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Historiography and popular understandings -- Ghetto: the source of the term and the phenomenon in the early modern age -- Ghetto and ghettoization as cultural concepts in the modern age -- The Nazis' anti-Jewish policy in the 1930s in Germany and the question of Jewish residential districts -- First references to the term "ghetto" in the ideological discourse of the makers of anti-Jewish policy in the Third Reich (1933-1938) -- The semantic turning point in the meaning of "ghetto": Peter-Heinz Seraphim and Das Judentum im osteuropäischen Raum -- The invasion of Poland and the emergence of the "classic" ghettos -- Methodological interlude: the term "ghettoization" and its use during the Holocaust itself and in later scholarship -- Would the idea spread to other places? Amsterdam 1941, the only attempt to establish a ghetto west of Poland -- Ghettos during the Final Solution, 1941-1943: The territories occupied in Operation Barbarossa -- Ghettos during the Final Solution outside the occupied Soviet Union: Poland, Theresienstadt, Amsterdam, Transnistria, Salonika, and Hungary -- Summary and conclusions Summary "This book is a linguistic-cultural study of the emergence of the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It traces the origins and uses of the term "ghetto" in European discourse from the sixteenth century to the Nazi regime. It examines with a magnifying glass both the actual establishment of and the discourse of the Nazis and their allies on ghettos from 1939 to 1944. With conclusions that oppose all existing explanations and cursory examinations of the ghetto, the book impacts overall understanding of the anti-Jewish policies of Nazi Germany"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-182) and index Notes Print version record Subject Jews -- Segregation -- Government policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Jewish ghettos -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Jews -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century HISTORY -- Holocaust. Ethnic relations Jewish ghettos Jews -- Social conditions SUBJECT Germany -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Germany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511779077 0511779070 9781139010238 1139010239 9781139008082 1139008080

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