
Envisioning a Jewish Medicine
When medical authorities of the 19th and early 20th centuries labeled Jews in poor urban enclaves as diseased, they lent support to those who saw the growing Jewish immigrant population as a plague on society. But if the language of medicine denigrated Jews, it could also defend them.
Explore how medical ideas were used to alternately marginalize and support Jews as a minority population in America, and how medicine became a way to strengthen Jewish identity.