Ghetto in Global History

Wendy Z. Goldman is Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, United States. She is a social and political historian of Russia, and her publications include Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II (2015, ed. with Donald Filtzer), Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia (2011), Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression (2007), and Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia (2002). Joe William Trotter, Jr. is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University, United States. He also directs Carnegie Mellon’s Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) and is a past president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. His publications include Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh Since World War II (2010, co-authored with Jared N. Day), Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 (second edition, 2007), and The African American Urban Experience: From the Colonial Era to the Present, with Earl Lewis and Tera W. Hunter (2004).

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Ghetto Made and Remade Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. TrotterPart I: The Early Modern Jewish Ghetto1 - Ghetto: Etymology, Original Definition, Reality, and Diffusion Benjamin Ravid2 - The End to Confessionalism: Jews, Law, and the Roman GhettoKenneth Stow3 - The Early Modern Ghetto: A Study in Urban Real EstateBernard Cooperman4 - Venice: A Culture of Enclosure, a Culture of Control. The Creation of the Ghetto in the Context of Early CinquecentoSamuel D. GruberPart II: Nazi Ghettos5 - "There was no work, we only worked for the Germans": Ghettos and Ghetto labor in German-occupied Soviet territoriesAnika Walke6 - Hunger in the GhettosHelene Sinnreich7 - Am I My Brother’s Keeper? Jewish Committees in the Ghettos of the Mogilev district and the Romanian authorities in Transnistria, 1941 to 1944Gali Mir-Tibon8 - Jewish Resistance in Ghettos in the former Soviet Union during the Holocaust Zvi Gitelman and Lenore J. Weitzman9 - When (and why) is a ghetto not a "ghetto"? Concentrating and Segregating Jews in Budapest, 1944 Tim ColePart III: U.S. and African American Ghettos10 - Shifting "Ghettos": Established Jews, Jewish Immigrants and African-Americans in Chicago 1880-1960Tobias Brinkman11 - "Is a Negro district, in the midst of our fairest cities, to become connotative of the ghetto…?": Using Corpus Analysis to Trace the "Ghetto" in the Black Press, 1900-1930 Avigail Oren12 - Constrained But Not Contained: Patterns of Everyday Life and the Limits of Segregation in 1920s HarlemStephen Robertson13 - The American Ghetto as an International Human Rights Crisis: The Fight Against Racial Restrictive Covenants, 1945-1948Jeffrey Gonda14 - Unmaking the Ghetto: Community Development and Persistent Social Inequality in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and PhiladelphiaBrian PurnellPart IV: Urban Locations, Apartheid, and the Ghetto in Southern Africa15 - "Their World Was a Ghetto:" Space, Power and Identity in Alexandra, South Africa’s Squatters’ Movement, 1946-47Dawne Curry16 - Citizens, not Subjects: Spatial Segregation and the Making of Durban’s African Working Class Alex Lichtenstein17 - Location Culture in South Africa Gavin SteingoConclusion: Common Themes and New DirectionsWendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. TrotterIndex

"Uncovering lines of connection and distinction stretching from Cinquecento Venice to apartheid Johannesburg via Nazi-controlled Bialystok and segregated Brooklyn, The Ghetto in Global History provides essential new insights into the making, remaking and unmaking of the ghetto as idea, social experience and technology of power."Daniel Matlin, King's College London, UK"Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe Trotter, Jr bring together many of the most important historians on ghettos in The Ghetto in Global History. The volume as a whole is an admirable attempt to breathe new life into the study of the classical tradition."Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading, UK