Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Jewish– German– Polish: Histories and Traditions in Medical Culture

   • Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, Fritz Dross

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3. Between Religious and Medical Authority: Early Modern Jewish Care for Body and Soul

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Yiddish “Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum” From Early Modern Poland: A Humanistic Symbiosis of Latin Medicine and Jewish Thought

      • Ewa Geller

      Pages 13-25

   3. ‘When the Rabbi Meets the Doctor’: Differing Attitudes to Medical Diagnosis Among Halakhic Authorities in Eastern and Central Europe in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century

      • Eliezer Sariel

      Pages 27-39

   4. The Debate over Early Burial Amongst Jews in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the 1790s

      • Hans-Uwe Lammel

      Pages 41-60

4. Modern Jewish Healthcare: Community and the State

   1. Front Matter

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   2. German Medicine, Folklore and Language in Popular Medical Practices of the Eastern European Jews (Nineteenth to Twentieth Century)

      • Marek Tuszewicki

      Pages 63-78

   3. Jewish Bodies and Jewish Doctors During the Cholera Years of the Polish Kingdom

      • Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen

      Pages 79-95

   4. Work of Jewish Medical Community and the Health Culture at School in the Second Republic of Poland (1918–1939)

      • Beata Szczepańska

      Pages 97-108

   5. A Survey of Jewish Healthcare in Poland After WWII

      • Ignacy Einhorn, Jakub Einhorn

      Pages 109-127

5. Shared Identities

   1. Front Matter

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   2. German-Jewish Doctors as Members of the Colonial Health Service in the Dutch East Indies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

      • Philipp Teichfischer

      Pages 131-153

   3. Jewish Students from Silesia Studying at the Medical Faculty of Vienna University in the Years 1850–1938 According to the Records Regarding University Promotion and Requirements

      • Joanna Lusek, Horst Doležal

      Pages 155-186

   4. Between ‘Here’ and ‘There’: The Dual Identity of Dr. Izrael Milejkowski

      • Naomi Menuhin

      Pages 187-198

   5. A Doctor’s War Testimony: The Four Incarnations of “Dr. Twardy”

      • Monika Rice

      Pages 199-217

   6. “Ich bin ein Koszaliner”? Struggles with Belongings in Borderlands. Leslie Baruch Brent’s Autobiography Sunday’s Child? A Memoire

      • Miłosława Borzyszkowska-Szewczyk

      Pages 219-233

6. Jewish Doctors in the Face of Terror and Extermination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Jewish Doctors: A Place in Holocaust History

      • Ross W. Halpin

      Pages 237-248

   3. Fate of the Jewish Doctors – Members of the Jewish Chamber of Physicians in the Warsaw Ghetto (1940–1943)

      • Maria Ciesielska

      Pages 249-260

Is ‘Jewish medicine’ a valid historical category? Does it represent a collective constituted by the interplay of medical, ethnic and religious cultures? Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, this book aims at answering this question historically by presenting  comprehensive coverage of Jewish medical traditions in Central Eastern Europe, mostly on what is today Poland and Germany (and the former Russian, Prussian and Austro-Hungarian Empires). In this significant zone of ethnic, religious and cultural interaction, Jewish, Polish, and German traditions and communities were more entangled, and identities were shared to an extent greater than anywhere else. Starting with early modern times and the Enlightenment, through the 19th century, up until the horrors of medicine in the ghettos and concentration camps, the book collects a variety of perspectives on the question of how Judaism and Jewish culture were dynamically related to medicine and healthcare. It discusses the Halachic traditions, hygiene-related stereotypes, the organization of healthcare within specified communities, academic careers, hybrid medical identities, and diversified medical practices.   

• Eastern Ashkenaz Medicine
• Halakhah Traditions
• Jewish Medicine in Poland
• Jewish Health Cultures
• Jewish Bodies
• Jewish Healthcare
• Jewish Identity
• Jewish Physicians in Auschwitz
• Jewish Medical Students
• Medicine in the Ghetto

• Department of Social Sciences, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

  Marcin Moskalewicz

• The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  Marcin Moskalewicz

• Res Publica Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

  Marcin Moskalewicz

• Department of Historical Sciences, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  Ute Caumanns

• Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

  Fritz Dross

Marcin Moskalewicz, born in Warsaw (Poland), studied history and philosophy of science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, University of California at Berkeley (2003) and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (2005, 2007). In 2009 he defended Ph.D. in philosophy of history in the „European Doctorate“ framework (summa cum laude). Moskalewicz has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Texas A & M University (USA), a EURIAS Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich/ETH Zurich (Switzerland) as well as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Poznan University of Medical Sciences and holds a fellowship at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Currently, his main research area is the philosophy of psychiatry.

Fritz Dross studied history and information science at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf (Germany). In 2002 he defended his PhD in modern history (Krankenhaus und lokale Politik, 1770-1850). In 2004 he became Assistant Professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Erlangen. In 2010 he completed his habilitation (venia legendi) with a work on late medieval and early modern urban leper care. He is currently Associate Professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). He is current President of the German Society for the History of Hospitals (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhausgeschichte), and the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine.

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