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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Ghetto The Invention of a Place the History of an Idea
Author: Mitchell Duneier
A five-hundred-year story of exclusion and containment, from the first Jewish ghetto to the presentOn March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in a closed quarter, il geto?named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck, and soon began its long and consequential history. In this swe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374536770
ISBN-10: 0374536775
Publication Date: 4/18/2017
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
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