VANISHING POINT: LOUIS WIRTH AND TODROS GELLER ON MAXWELL STREET.

Louis Wirth's 1928 book The Ghetto may be the most important work of interwar American sociology focused on Jewish life. Although The Ghetto has received some attention from scholars since its publication more than 85 years ago, very few observers have paid any sustained attention to that fact that...

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Publicado en:Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 63 - 91
Autor principal: Greene, Daniel
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Publicado: Purdue University Press Summer2017
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