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Hardcover Ghetto: The History of a Word Book
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ISBN: 0674737539

ISBN13: 9780674737532

Ghetto: The History of a Word

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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...

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