Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the ghetto made and remade / Wendy Z. Goldman and Joe W. Trotter -- The early modern Jewish ghetto -- Ghetto : etymology, original definition, reality, and diffusion / Benjamin Ravid -- The end to confessionalism : Jews, law, and the Roman ghetto / Kenneth Stow -- The early modern ghetto : a study in urban real estate / Bernard Cooperman -- Venice : a culture of enclosure, a culture of control : the creation of the ghetto in the context of early cinquecento / Samuel D. Gruber -- Nazi ghettos -- "There was no work, we only worked for the Germans" : ghettos and ghetto labor in German-occupied soviet territories / Anika Walke -- Hunger in the ghettos / Helene Sinnreich -- Am I my brother's keeper? : Jewish committees in the ghettos of the Mogilev district and the Romanian authorities in Transnistria, 1941 to 1944 / Gali Mir-Tibon -- Jewish resistance in ghettos in the former Soviet Union during the holocaust / Zvi Gitelman and Lenore J. Weitzman -- When (and why) is a ghetto not a "ghetto"? : concentrating and segregating Jews in Budapest, 1944 / Tim Cole -- U.S. and African -- Shifting "ghettos" : established jews, jewish immigrants and african-americans in chicago 1880-1960 / Tobias Brinkman -- "Is a Negro district, in the midst of our fairest cities, to become connotative of the ghetto"? : using corpus analysis to trace the "ghetto" in the black press, 1900-1930 / Avigail Oren -- Constrained but not contained : patterns of everyday life and the limits of segregation in 1920s Harlem / Stephen Robertson -- The American ghetto as an international human rights crisis : the fight against racial restrictive covenants, 1945-1948 / Jeffrey Gonda -- Unmaking the ghetto : community development and persistent social inequality in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia / Brian Purnell -- Urban locations, apartheid, and the ghetto in Southern Africa -- "Their world was a ghetto" : space, power and identity in Alexandra, South Africa's squatters' movement, 1946-47 / Dawne Curry -- Citizens, not subjects : spatial segregation and the making of Durban's African / Working Class -- Alex lichtenstein -- Location culture in South Africa / Gavin Steingo