Violent space : the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw /

"For Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to facilitate social and political exclusion and further their anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghetto became the center of their lives--even though they were also sites of immense suffering. Combining thorough hi...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nowak, Anja (Author)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.6605407
Sumário:
  • Part I: Localization.
  • Introduction: Localization
  • Spatial violence
  • Mapping the ghetto
  • The archive
  • Streets and buildings
  • Part II: The making of a violent space. Introduction: The making of a violent space
  • Jews in prewar Warsaw
  • Creation of the ghetto
  • Dissolution of the ghetto
  • Destruction of the ghetto
  • Part III: Experiences of a violent space. Introduction: Experiences of a violent space
  • Destruction
  • Decreed space
  • Buildings
  • Lost homes
  • Violated homes
  • Overcrowding
  • Life and death
  • News
  • Communication
  • Orientation
  • Topography of violence
  • Public violence
  • Sound of the ghetto
  • Deserted apartments
  • Death space
  • Spaces of resistance
  • Part IV: Conclusion. Violent space.