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The First Ghetto: or Venetian Exlemplariness - Softcover

Becker-Ho, Alice

 
9781919601922: The First Ghetto: or Venetian Exlemplariness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1919601929 ISBN 13: 9781919601922
Publisher: 1968 Press, 2022

Synopsis

In 1516, the Venetian ghetto was established, and the city’s Jewish population was segregated into it. This move was to redefine city life and set a blueprint for a European urban capitalist future. In The First Ghetto, Situationist Alice Becker-Ho takes a long look at the history of Venice―and its importance to cities in general―arguing that it became the heir to ancient traditions that turned it into a model commercial city whose problems we still grapple with today. Through its examination of the four major established theories of the etymology and implications of the word ‘ghetto’, Becker-Ho’s intervention has the potential not so much to add a fifth to these, but to reduce them to one, definitive account.

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Publisher
1968 Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1919601929
ISBN 13 
9781919601922
Binding
Paperback