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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790645103321

Autore

Cole Tim <1970, >

Titolo

Holocaust city : the making of a Jewish ghetto / / Tim Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-30707-5

0-415-92969-5

0-203-95125-5

1-135-30700-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/1853912

Soggetti

Jews - Hungary - Budapest - Social conditions - 20th century

Jewish ghettos - Hungary - Budapest - History - 20th century

Human geography - Hungary

Urban policy - Hungary

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Hungary

Hungary Social policy 20th century

Hungary Social conditions 1918-1945

Hungary Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Holocaust City; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Architectural Solutions, Spatial Solutions, and Final Solutions; Chapter Two Asking Spatial Questions of Holocaust Ghettoization; Chapter Three Holocaust Ghettoization and the Specifics of Time and Place: Hungary, 1944; Chapter Four Planning and Implementing Ghettoization, April-May 1944; Chapter Five Implementing Ghettoization, June 1944; Chapter Six Contesting Ghettoization, June 1944; Chapter Seven Putting the "Jews" in Their Place, May-June 1944

Chapter Eight Planning and Implementing Hyphenated Ghettoization, July 1944-January 1945Chapter Nine Uncovering the Traces of Ghettoization, 1945 to the Present; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing from the ideas of critical geography and based on extensive



archival research, Cole brilliantly reconstructs the formation of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust, focusing primarily on the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary--one of the largest created during the war, but rarely examined.  Cole maps the city illustrating how spaces--cafes, theaters, bars, bathhouses--became divided in two.  Throughout the book, Cole discusses how the creation of this Jewish ghetto, just like the others being built across occupied Europe, tells us a great deal about the nature of Nazism, what life was like u