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Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto
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Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto Hardcover - 2003

by Tim Cole


From the publisher

Drawing from the ideas of critical geography and based on extensive archival research, Cole brilliantly reconstructs the formation of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust, focusing primarily on the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary--one of the largest created during the war, but rarely examined. Cole maps the city illustrating how spaces--cafes, theaters, bars, bathhouses--became divided in two. Throughout the book, Cole discusses how the creation of this Jewish ghetto, just like the others being built across occupied Europe, tells us a great deal about the nature of Nazism, what life was like under Nazi-occupation, and the role the ghetto actually played in the Final Solution.

First line

Alice Lok Cahana is one of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors featured in Steven Spielberg's documentary The Last Days.

Details

  • Title Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto
  • Author Tim Cole
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date May 23, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780415929684 / 0415929687
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Hungary, Hungary - Ethnic relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002153070
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

About the author

Tim Cole, a respected historian on the Holocaust, is Lecturer of European Social History at the University of Bristol. Cole has written widely on the topic and his previous book, Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz toSchindler, How History is Bought, Packaged, and Sold (Routledge, 1999), received wide media attention and critical praise.