they published the book and it was the year i commend wind to trial and the same year in which ronald hilberg perhaps the greatest scholar of the holocaust, the person that helps create the field, one of the greatest fields and accomplishments in history wrote this book and the destruction of the european jews. this is a moment in which the books my father was reading at home were books like these and although he himself didn't go to college for more than a couple of years, before he had to go to his family's business he discovered history over time and v. is for the kind of conversations that we would have for jewish history in those years and in my first six or seven years of my life, i heard a lot about the ghetto and nazi ghettos. it's interesting to think by the time i was in graduate school at the university of chicago in the sociology department that you can look at the graph. you can see that the black ghetto have become hegemonic and had been basically obliterated in books that are catalogued today. when i was in graduate school of somebody mentioned the word in a sociology class, it