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The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine. By Mitchell B. Hart. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x + 264 pp.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the conception of the Jews as having unhealthy, diseased bodies was widely held within European--and to some extent general Western--culture. This has been well documented in various publications, perhaps most frequently by Sander Gilman. (1) Mitchell Hart, the author of the book under present review, has also contributed to the literature on Jewish pathology. (2) But now Hart has written a book about authors who considered Jews to be healthy, covering approximately the century from 1850-1950.

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