| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Alan M. Kraut. Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader. New York: Hill and Wang. 2003. Pp. xvi, 313. $25.00.

Alan M. Kraut's biography of Joseph Goldberger is an extraordinarily successful attempt to merge the biographical tradition of the "Great Men/Women" of medicine with the writing of serious social history of medicine. Goldberger, best known for championing the diet theory of pellagra, is without a doubt an appropriate figure through which to accomplish this. A Jewish immigrant from the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Goldberger was educated at City College and Bellevue and joined what would become the Public Health Service soon thereafter. He married an "upper-class" Episcopal woman from New Orleans. Her family raised little objection to her marriage but pointed out the social difficulties that she and her children would experience from antisemitism, while his family did not attend their wedding but welcomed their new daughter-in-law into their home and family. Goldberger seems the paradigmatic case of acculturation for Central European Jews during the early twentieth century. Born and buried a Jew, his life was shaped by the awareness of antisemitism, without it becoming an obsession or having much of a function in his daily life. He insisted on having his sons circumcised but, as Kraut notes, this was the age where the meaning of this procedure had moved in the United States from Jewish ritual to notions of hygiene.

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