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Of Venetian and Gazan ghettos

I was just reading chapter from Richard Sennett’s book Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization, a chapter entitled “Fear of Touching”, which was about the creation of the Jewish ghetto (and whence the term originates) … Continue reading

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The return of the nail houses

Well, the nail-houses have never gone anywhere, it’s more a matter of where the media has gone when they don’t cover them. I’m not saying there ought to be round the clock coverage, just that the phenomenon is and always … Continue reading

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