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The Ghetto

Autor Louis Wirth
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 1997
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 the Jews. Wirth demonstrates that the economic life of the modern Jew still reflects the impress of the social isolation of ghetto life; at first self-imposed, later formalized, and finally imposed by others through a variety of extralegal mechanisms. He presents a faithful picture of an environment now largely vanished and illustrates a sociological method in so doing.
In his foreword to the book, Robert E. Park reminds us that the city is not merely an artifact but an organism. Its growth is often uncontrolled and undesigned. The forms it tends to assume are those which represent and correspond to the functions that it is called upon to perform. The Ghetto will be important to scholars in Jewish studies, the history of sociology, American ethnic history, and social history. This volume is the second in a series of studies in ethnicity edited by Ronald H. Bayor of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781560009832
ISBN-10: 1560009837
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Foreword, Preface, I. Introduction, II. The Origin of the Ghetto, III. The Ghetto Becomes an Institution, IV. Frankfort: A Typical Ghetto, V. The Jewish Type, VI. The Jewish Mind, VII. The Ghetto in Dissolution, VIII. The Jews in America, IX. Origins of the Jewish Community in Chicago, X. The Jewish Community and the Ghetto, XI. The Chicago Ghetto, XII. The Vanishing Ghetto, XIII. The Return to the Ghetto, XIV. The Sociological Significance of the Ghetto, Bibliography, Index of Authors, Subject Index

Descriere

In his foreword to the book, Robert E. Park reminds us that the city is not merely an artifact but an organism. Its growth is often uncontrolled and undesigned. The forms it tends to assume are those which represent and correspond to the functions that it is called upon to perform. The Ghetto will be important to scholars in Jewish studies, the history of sociology, American ethnic history, and social history.