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T1 Geographies: Writing the Shtetl into the Ghetto
A1 Wald, Priscilla
AB I am interested, first of all, in the logic of the transition from “tenement”to “ghetto” in the work of the sociologists from the ChicagoSchool, arguably the earliest theorists of the city in the U.S., and, secondly,in how and why the Jewish ghetto became the archetypal ghettoin their work. In the sociological imagination, Jewish immigrants wereseen as a group that wanted to Americanize but that also wished toremain apart; the ghetto emblematized, as it gave spatial expression to,that position and thereby exemplified Americanization as the sociologistsdefined and facilitated it. This essay explores both how the Jewishghetto evolved as the expression of the sociologists’ understanding ofAmericanization and how the metaphor of contagion became central tothat process. It is part of a larger project on contagion and Americanismin the twentieth century.
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