Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto, Tim Cole (New York; London: Routledge, 2003), xv + 303 pp., cloth 125.00, pbk. 29.95
The purpose of Cole’s book is to investigate the relationship between the physical layout of the Budapest ghetto and the ways in which the ghetto planners utilized city space for their own purposes. This relationship involves the question of how ordinary political, military, and bureaucratic officia...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 515-518 |
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| Summary: | The purpose of Cole’s book is to investigate the relationship between the physical layout of the Budapest ghetto and the ways in which the ghetto planners utilized city space for their own purposes. This relationship involves the question of how ordinary political, military, and bureaucratic officials were able “to create distinct ‘Jewish’ and ‘non-Jewish’ space” out of “something so ordinary as the very spaces and places of a city” (p. xii). But beyond this well-defined focus, Cole’s book grapples with another, more controversial issue: the urgent impulse that “obsesses anyone who encounters the Holocaust: Why?” (p. xii). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcl029 |