Physical Description
viii, 191 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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 policies in the Third Reich (1933-1938)
The semantic turning point in the meaning of 'ghetto': Peter-Heinz Seraphim and Das Judentum in osteuropa;ischen 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 conclusion.
ISBN
9780521763714
0521763711 (hardback)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-182) and index.
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 policies in the Third Reich (1933-1938) -- The semantic turning point in the meaning of 'ghetto': Peter-Heinz Seraphim and Das Judentum in osteuropa;ischen 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 conclusion.
