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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"ghettos"”.
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Awakened Lambs: Jewish Armed Resistance in the Ghettos, 1939-1944
… Jewish armed resistance did occur in Hitler's ghettos. This thesis corrects the flawed impression that all Jews went like sheep to the slaughter. Drawing on archival documents, diaries and memoirs, and secondary sources, it argues that under severe human degredation and suffering, many Jews in …
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The Catastrophic Position of the Judenräte: Self-Serving Collaborators or Honorable Martyrs?
… out their demands and orders throughout the ghettos of Eastern Europe. These influential men made up the Judenrate. From the beginning of the ghettos until their tragic demise, these Jewish leaders were responsible for executing difficult, and at times immoral, orders from the Nazis. With …
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Clustering, Segregation and the 'Ghetto': the spatialisation of Jewish settlement in Manchester and Leeds in the 19th century
… clusters, which are invariably referred to as 'ghettos'. A review of the literature on 'ghettos' suggests that the clustering of identifiable minorities is commonly associated with segregation - be it physical, economic, social or linguistic - although it is the physical segregation which tends …
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Nature and the city : ecohistory and environmental planning in Philadelphia, 1681-2000
… the "nature" that they attempt to inhabit. The ghettos of the inner city's declining industrial districts, meanwhile, have been plagued by high concentrations of pollution and homes sinking into creeks. Finally, in the later twentieth century, neighborhood and regional planners have confronted …
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Żydzi i Polacy w Poznańskiem, 1938-1945 – próba syntezy
… population (these were the future prisoners of ghettos and labor camps) and the so-called Polenaktion. i.e. the deportation of Jews of Polish origin from Germany at the end of October 1938. Jerzy Tomaszewski aptly called it the "prelude to the Holocaust". The pre-war section discusses, among …
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Japanese Photographic Documentation of Jewish Refugees in Kobe in 1941 in the Context of 1930s Social Documentary Photography
… photographic portrayal of life in Jewish ghettos in Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania in 1935-39. I argue that the ‘Displaced Jews’ photographs have a unique style that manifest multiple Japanese and international visual influences, and that they reveal how exotic, …
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The Justified Lawman: Cowboy Killings in the Modern Era
… which are routinely set in so-called urban ghettos. The justified violence of police in this particular context then, offers insight into a unique cultural script depicting how largely white rural poor are swept up in a moral and spatial purge deemed altogether necessary because of their …
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Aspectos sociais de uma instituição fechada e de seu processo de transição democrática: um estudo de caso sobre uma comunidade de hansenianos
… mais l’action sociale dans ces "colonies" ou "ghettos" des porteus de la maladie de Hansen etait encore genee de façon anachronique dans une pratique institutionelle coercitive, autoritaire, frequente dans les institutions fermees. L’etude essaie de montrer comment etait la vie des habitants …
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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966--1996
… to some of the roughest and most destitute black ghettos in the South and nation. As such it represents various interconnections and interactions between diverse black populations within the urban New South.
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Jose Arturo Castellanos: An Unlikely Hero of the Second World War from El Salvador
… of Jews who held such certificates to the ghettos and concentration camps. Castellanos, along with fellow diplomat Hungarian businessman George Mandel, secretly organized and carried out this effort independent of the El Salvadoran government for whom Castellanos was working. Colonel …
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The Ha-Ha Holocaust: Exploring Levity Amidst the Ruins and Beyond in Testimony, Literature and Film
… which are found within the laughter of the ghettos, the transit camps, and the concentration camps. Furthermore, some of these jokes, and their subsequent variations, reappear within the discourse of children of survivors. The dissertation explores how some of these children use humour to …
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To Build Home and to Live in (U)Hygge
… homes have been largely represented as "ghettos," distinct urban territories characterized by social dysfunction and unemployment. This thesis looks at the home as the site where citizenship is produced and performed through household objects, furniture, and architecture. With an archive …
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Researching the entrepreneurial journeys, barriers and drivers of women portfolio entrepreneurs
… sex entrepreneurs with their trades located in ghettos of entrepreneurship and the devalued sphere of the home. Using Ahl’s article, specifically the section referring to men’s and women’s differences, a framework, The Underperformance PPP was developed, categorising the alleged shortcomings …
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The holocaust and apartheid: similarities and differences: a comparative study
… in the Cape. Initially Jews were confined to ghettos, eventually to labour and death camps. In South Africa people of colour were forcibly removed to rural 'homelands'. However the demand for cheap labour eventually necessitated their admission to the urban industrial areas, and although they …
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Mobile retrospective : shrinking the digital divide
… focuses on, are that of the extreme poor; the ghettos that are frequently neglected physically and financially. These are environments where the presence of fear, lack of trust, and danger are everyday psychological realities in which the young and the old must persevere. Space allotted for …
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Local networks : theory and applications
… set-up explains not only the persistence of ghettos, but also provides a mechanism for the rapid transition from an all-white to an all-black equilibrium. The analysis of the model introduces a new technique to characterize the medium and long-run stochastic dynamics of processes with many …
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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social, and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966-1996
… to some of the roughest and most destitute black ghettos in the South and nation. As such it represents various interconnections and interactions between diverse black populations within the urban New South. The city’s old and powerful black middle class, along with a powerful white business …
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Black housing in South Africa : realities, myths and options
… and social centres; ... Fenced location and ghettos shall be abolished, and laws which break up families shall be repealed. Each of the above two statements in turn begs a related question: Of the present policy - how and why did it come about? What are the present responses and how effective …
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The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business
… legislations in the guise of wars on drugs and ghettos deemed to be out of control. These actions have continued to deny equal educational and employment opportunities to people of color while destabilizing cultural identities. The idea to imprison so many Blacks and to make the neighborhoods …
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Haratin di Mauritania: da status ascritto a rivendicazione identitaria. La schiavitù in prospettiva postcoloniale
… concurred to free some slaves, who moved in the ghettos of Nouakchott where they began to be aware of their exploitation and of their different identity from Arab-Berber masters. From 2008, a new impulse to antislavery fight came from IRA Mauritanie, which leader Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid …
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