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Preface and Acknowledgments

The healthy jew

Introduction: "Links in a Long Chain": Jews, Judaism, Health, and Hygiene

Judaism and health

Egyptians, greeks, and jews/arabs, christians, and jews

Science and religion

Translating moses, judaism, and the jews

Apologetics and philosemitism

The jewish body, healthy and diseased

1 “’Tis a Little People, But It Has Done Great Things”: The Role of Health and Medicine in Modern Jewish Apologetics

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2 Moses the Microbiologist: Alfred Nossig’s The Social Hygiene of the Jews

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3 Healthy Hebrews, Healthy Jews: The Bible as a Sanitary Code in Anglo-American Medical Literature

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4 From Ghetto to Jungle: Darwinism, Eugenics, and the Reinterpretation of Jewish History

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5 TB or Not TB, That Was a Jewish Question: Moses, Kashrut, and the Prevention of Tuberculosis

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6 "Then What Advantage Does the Jew Have?": Judaism as a Model for Christian Health

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7 Conclusion

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Introduction

1. “’Tis a Little People, But It Has Done Great Things”

2. Moses the Microbiologist

3. Healthy Hebrews, Healthy Jews

4. From Ghetto to Jungle

5. TB or Not TB, That Was a Jewish Question

6. “Then What Advantage Does the Jew Have?”

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Secondary Sources

Index