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Inside is clean, but the bottom edge has stains. Shipping from Japan via registered mail. When The Ghetto first appeared seventy years ago, Bruno Lasker in the New York Times called it the most informing general account of the cultural background and psychological development of the American Jew. Arguably, the book still occupies this special niche in ethnic studies. Hasia Diner's extensive new introduction, in itself an important contribution to the history of sociological ideas, points out that The Ghetto stands in a class by itself as a piece of scholarship of the early twentieth century. That judgment stands. The Ghetto traces back to the medieval era the Jewish immigrant colonies that have virtually disappeared from our modern cities--to be replaced by other ghettoes. Analytical as well as historical, Wirth's book lays bare the rich inner life hidden behind the drab exterior of the ghetto. The book describes the significant physical, social, and psychic influences of ghetto life upon…
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- Title The Ghetto
- Author Louis Wirth
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- Pages 311
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 1928-12
- ISBN 9780226902500
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