The communal life of a group of people brought together by external coercion with no deliberate intention of forming a common destiny gradually took forms over time that were only possible on the territory of the ghetto. Everyday life requires certain norms of working and existing. It developed its own structure, its language, its terminology. No community anywhere in the world could be comparable to that of the ghetto. […] A collection of these linguistic and lexical resources forms part of the ghetto’s cultural history. In a later period of history, one to which research on the ghetto...
The communal life of a group of people brought together by external coercion with no deliberate intention of forming a common destiny gradually took f...