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Markel Howard

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

Johns Hopkins University Press, 199,

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Dettagli

Autore
Markel Howard
Editori
Johns Hopkins University Press, 199
Soggetto
Judaica Ebraica Hebrews
Descrizione
New
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
Stato di conservazione
Nuovo
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione
No

Descrizione

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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