The Lecture Contains:
Is the Ghetto a case-study in isolation or accommodation?
Ghetto was not a creation of authority but arose out of ecological factors
The Jews supplemented the economic complex of medieval European life
Extreme familiarity within the Ghetto and distance from the outside world
The legal enactment of the Ghetto as the dwelling place of the Jews was abolished
Later, Ghettos are created by economic and not political bondage
Ghetto is not a physical entity but a state of mind and a corporate body
In contemporary times the term Ghetto has elements of community, ethnicity and class
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