The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust

by Dan Michman , Translated by Lenn J. Schramm

• ISBN13: 9780521763714
• ISBN10: 0521763711
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Historiography and Popular Understandings	p. 6
Ghetto: The Source of the Term and the Phenomenon in the Early Modern Age	p. 20
Ghetto and Ghettoization as Cultural Concepts in the Modern Age	p. 25
The Nazis' Anti-Jewish Policy in the 1930s in Germany and the Question of Jewish Residential Districts	p. 31
First References to the Term ôGhettoö in the Ideological Discourse of the Makers of Anti-Jewish Policy in the Third Reich (1933-1938)	p. 36
The Semantic Turning Point in the Meaning of ôGhettoö: Peter-Heinz Seraphim and Das Judentum im osteuropäischen Raum	p. 45
The Invasion of Poland and the Emergence of the ôClassicö Ghettos	p. 61
Methodological Interlude: The Term ôGhettoizationö and Its Use During the Holocaust Itself and in Later Scholarship	p. 90
Would the Idea Spread to Other Places? Amsterdam 1941, the Only Attempt to Establish a Ghetto West of Poland	p. 94
Ghettos During the Final Solution, 1941-1943: The Territories Occupied in Operation Barbarossa	p. 102
Ghettos During the Final Solution Outside the Occupied Soviet Union: Poland, Theresienstadt, Amsterdam, Transnistria, Salonika, and Hungary	p. 122
Summary and Conclusions	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 163
Index	p. 183
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