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Livres anciens et modernes

Markel Howard

Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

Johns Hopkins University Press, 199,

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Auteur
Markel Howard
Éditeurs
Johns Hopkins University Press, 199
Thème
Judaica Ebraica Hebrews
Description
New
Description
H
Jaquette
Oui
Etat de conservation
Neuf
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

8vo, hardcover in dj, 262pp. In Quarantine! Howard Markel traces the course of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892. The story is told from the point of view of those involved?the public health doctors who diagnosed and treated the victims, the newspaper reporters who covered the stories, the government officials who established and enforced policy, and, most importantly, the immigrants themselves. Drawing on rarely cited stories from the Yiddish American press, immigrant diaries and letters, and official accounts, Markel follows the immigrants on their journey from a squalid and precarious existence in Russia's Pale of Settlement, to their passage in steerage, to New York's Lower East Side, to the city's quarantine islands. At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering some of the significant problems that face American society today.
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