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Contains list of c. 200,000 names of individuals interned in the Lodz ghetto. Entries include sex, birthdate, occupation, address and notes from the German lists. The book contains a summary about the history of the Lodz ghetto.
idea of the ghetto has been adapted to the forced relocation of German Jews to Nazi-controlled towns across Eastern Europe, as well as to the racial segregation of African Americans in impoverished inner-city neighbourhoods [Duneier 2016; Freeman 2019; Haynes and Hutchison 2008].
As of 2020, the highest concentration of Jews is in the North Suburbs Cook metropolitan division, with 32% of individuals being Jewish, followed by City Far North, Near North Suburbs, and Near NW Suburbs (all 11%); and City North and North Suburbs Lake (both 10%).
Frankfort, Budapest, Rome, Venice, Vilna, were among the largest, best-known historical European Ghettos. On the West Side of Chicago, observers and commentators alike noted, a Jewish “ghetto” existed within a slum.
A 1920s map by sociologist Frederic M. Thrasher placed the Polish and Bohemian enclaves throughout the entire West Side, including the Lower West Side near Halsted Street; Germans occupied the northern lakefront, with Jewish people settling north of Madison Street and also along the southern lakefront.
The digitization of the Chicago Defender makes it possible to trace how often the term "ghetto" was mentioned in the pages of the main African American daily. The analysis shows that "ghetto" was only used up to three times annually during the 1920s.
7 lut 2023 · Even the newer Chicago ghettos had their distinct lines of demarcation. For instance, the contours of the Jewish community in 1870 were bounded by Van Buren, Polk, and Clark Streets, as well as the Chicago River, with synagogues marking “the outposts of Jewish settlements before the great fire” [ibid.: 169]. More recent writings on ...
