Ghettostadt: Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City, Gordon J. Horwitz (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008), 395 pp., pbk. 18.95 (available Spring 2010), cloth 29.95
In recent years, research on the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe—scholarship hitherto limited in quantity and quality, and concentrated on the case of Warsaw—has improved enormously. Ghettos now are considered a vital stage in the process of destruction, worthy of study on their own account. Recent...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 117-119 |
| Review of: | Ghettostadt (Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap, 2008) (Corni, Gustavo)
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| Summary: | In recent years, research on the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe—scholarship hitherto limited in quantity and quality, and concentrated on the case of Warsaw—has improved enormously. Ghettos now are considered a vital stage in the process of destruction, worthy of study on their own account. Recent scholarship has placed Łódź under particular scrutiny, for two main reasons: first, the available sources are very rich; and second, the case of Łódź is genuinely unusual. Łódź was the last surviving ghetto, liquidated only in August 1944, and the Jewish Council of Elders (Judenrat) managed to make it a complex productive system crucial to the German authorities. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq005 |