Ghetto

Name: Ghetto
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

In his foreword to the book, Robert E. Park reminds us that the city is not merely an artifact but an organism. Its growth is often uncontrolled and undesigned. The forms it tends to assume are those which represent and correspond to the functions that it is called upon to perform. The Ghetto will be important to scholars in Jewish studies, the history of sociology, American ethnic history, and social history. > \nWhen The Ghetto first appeared seventy years ago, Bruno Lasker in the New York Times called it \""the most informing general account of the cultural background and psychological development of the American Jew.\"" Arguably, the book still occupies this special niche in ethnic studies. Hasia Diner's extensive new introduction, in itself an important contribution to the history of sociological ideas, points out that The Ghetto \""stands in a class by itself as a piece of scholarship of the early twentieth century.\"" That judgment stands.