Jewish - German - Polish: Histories and Traditions in Medical Culture

Moskalewicz M, Caumanns U, Dross F (2019)

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2019

Edited Volumes: Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe

Series: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach

Book Volume: 3

Pages Range: 1-9

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92480-9_1

Abstract

This chapter introduces the content and the methodological premises of the book Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe. Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, the book geographically concentrates 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 nineteenth century, up until the horrors of medicine in the ghettos and concentration camps, the book aims at collecting a variety of perspectives on the question of how Judaism and Jewish culture was dynamically related to medicine and healthcare.

Authors with CRIS profile

Fritz Dross Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Medizin

Involved external institutions

Poznan University of Medical Sciences / Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu PL Poland (PL) Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Moskalewicz, M., Caumanns, U., & Dross, F. (2019). Jewish - German - Polish: Histories and Traditions in Medical Culture. In Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, Fritz Dross (Eds.), Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe. (pp. 1-9).

MLA:

Moskalewicz, Marcin, Ute Caumanns, and Fritz Dross. "Jewish - German - Polish: Histories and Traditions in Medical Culture." Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe. Ed. Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, Fritz Dross, 2019. 1-9.

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