Acknowledgments
Preface: How We Got Here...
Part I: Localization
Introduction: Localization
1. Spatial Violence
2. Mapping the Ghetto
3. The Archive
4. Streets and Buildings
Part II: The Making of a Violent Space
Introduction: The
Making of a Violent Space
5. Jews in Pre-War Warsaw
6. Creation of the Ghetto
7. Dissolution of the Ghetto
8. Destruction of the Ghetto
Part III: Experiences of a Violent Space
Introduction:
Experiences of a Violent Space
9. Destruction
10. Decreed Space
11. Buildings
12. Lost Homes
13. Violated Homes
14. Overcrowding
15. Life and Death
16. News
17. Communication
18. Orientation
19. Topography of Violence
20. Public Violence
21. Sound of the Ghetto
22. Deserted Apartments
23. Death Space
24. Spaces of Resistance
Part V: Conclusion
25. Violent Space
Appendix
Works Cited
Index
Anja Nowak received her PhD from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is author of a German monograph on Theodor W. Adorno, Elemente einer Ästhetik des Theatralen in Adornos Ästhetischer Theorie. She is editor (with Bożena Karwowska) of The More I Know, The Less I Understand: Young Researchers' Essays on Witnessing Auschwitz. She works as a freelance writer, researcher and educator in Frankfurt, Germany.
"Given its focus on the Warsaw ghetto, Violent Space builds on a
number of existing works in important ways through its focus on the
topography of the ghetto and the spatial practices of ghetto
inhabitants. As the author notes, the destruction of the ghetto
means that these places and spaces are no longer present in the
contemporary city and the author follows Engelking and Leociak in
excavating them and bringing them to life. Here the book will
appeal to the general reader given the importance of the Warsaw
ghetto within the story of the Holocaust. But Violent Space does
more than focus on Warsaw alone and so will be of wider interest to
scholars of ghettos and the nascent field of Holocaust geographies,
environmental histories of the Holocaust and genocide space."—Tim
Cole, author of Holocaust Landscapes
"This is an excellent book. It is well-written, clear, original,
and relevant. The author never fails, when discussing these
experiences, to frame the conversation around the concept of space,
with pertinent examples and quite deep reflections on the personal
geographies and stories of the witnesses."—Alberto Giordano, editor
of Geographies of the Holocaust
"Anja Nowak's Violent Space marks the advent of mature spatial
scholarship on the Holocaust. This astonishingly insightful book is
infused with Nowak's profound understanding of Nazi spatial theory
and practice and how their violent implementation in the Warsaw
ghetto created extreme, constantly changing spaces of human
suffering. Nowak's lucid prose makes every chapter coherent and
powerful, while building a sustained interpretation of ghettoized
space as violence, and violence as a flood of spatial acts. Violent
Space is spatial history at its very best: deeply geographical,
seeking at every turn to determine how spatial ideas became
specific actions that affected Jews' lives. A brilliant
contribution to Holocaust studies that spatial scholars across the
humanities should read."—Anne Kelly Knowles, University of Maine
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