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Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism

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This chapter elucidates and assesses different scholarly perspectives on the relationship between the mandatory and exclusive ghetto in Jewish history and antisemitism. While some argue for the centrality of antisemitism (or anti-Judaism) in the creation and maintenance of ghettos in early modern Europe, others provide mitigating explanations that question how significant a factor it was. In general, this piece seeks to caution against a tendency in some of the more recent research to minimize the part played by antisemitism in the genesis of Jewish ghettos.

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  1. George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Daniel B. Schwartz

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  1. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Sol Goldberg

  2. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Scott Ury

  3. York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Kalman Weiser

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Schwartz, D.B. (2021). Ghetto. In: Goldberg, S., Ury, S., Weiser, K. (eds) Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51658-1_10

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