Violent Space – The Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw Nowak Hardback 9780253067425

Violent SpaceThe Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw\nAuthor(s): Anja Nowak\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253067425, 978-0253067425\nSynopsis\nFor Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to facilitate social and political exclusion and further their anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghettos became the center of their liveseven though they were also sites of immense suffering. \n\n Combining thorough historical research with an interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between space and violence, Violent Space provides a unique insight into the history and the socio-spatial topography of the Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Warsaw [tel]. Using rare archival materials and firsthand accounts, many of which have never been translated into English, Anja Nowak traces out the trauma that the space of the ghetto inflicted on its Jewish inhabitants, and how it alienated, disor.