The Ghetto (Studies in Ethnicity) - Softcover

-Not only does Louis Wirth's classic The Ghetto still make for fascinating reading, but Hasia Diner's insightful introduction to this new edition superbly contextualizes the book in the complex life of the man and in the historical moment in academic sociology and American Jewish life during which he wrote it.- --Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University -Few who have studied American Judaism, or for that matter almost any field of Jewish history, are totally unfamiliar with Louis Wirth's The Ghetto, a classic of both sociology and community history. . . . It would seem to me that his study of a Chicago Jewish neighborhood withstands the test of time and is an important contribution to all those involved in local settlement patterns, urban and neighborhood history, and community building in America.- --Seth Ward, University of Denver "Not only does Louis Wirth's classic The Ghetto still make for fascinating reading, but Hasia Diner's insightful introduction to this new edition superbly contextualizes the book in the complex life of the man and in the historical moment in academic sociology and American Jewish life during which he wrote it." --Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University "Few who have studied American Judaism, or for that matter almost any field of Jewish history, are totally unfamiliar with Louis Wirth's The Ghetto, a classic of both sociology and community history. . . . It would seem to me that his study of a Chicago Jewish neighborhood withstands the test of time and is an important contribution to all those involved in local settlement patterns, urban and neighborhood history, and community building in America." --Seth Ward, University of Denver "Not only does Louis Wirth's classic The Ghetto still make for fascinating reading, but Hasia Diner's insightful introduction to this new edition superbly contextualizes the book in the complex life of the man and in the historical moment in academic sociology and American Jewish life during which he wrote it." --Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University "Few who have studied American Judaism, or for that matter almost any field of Jewish history, are totally unfamiliar with Louis Wirth's The Ghetto, a classic of both sociology and community history. . . . It would seem to me that his study of a Chicago Jewish neighborhood withstands the test of time and is an important contribution to all those involved in local settlement patterns, urban and neighborhood history, and community building in America." --Seth Ward, University of Denver