Bryan Cheyette is chair in modern literature and culture at the University of Reading, and a fellow of the English association. He has authored or edited several books, including The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction and is a series editor for New Horizons in Contemporary Writing.
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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which traveled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European 'gh... SEE MORE