| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892. By Howard Markel. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xvi, 262 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8018-5512-8.)

Howard Markel's book adds to the growing body of insightful historical literature exploring public health and social responses to disease. It focuses on the cholera and typhus epidemics of 1892, which were not particularly important in terms of the number of people affected but were critical to the racial politics of a city experiencing a large influx of immigrants, including Jews from Russia. After the arrival of the SS Massilia carrying Russian Jews, a typhus epidemic broke out in New York City. Cyrus Edson, the chief sanitary inspector for New York, focused virtually exclusively on the ship's passengers in his fight to contain the epidemic, even though the evidence was scanty that Russian Jews brought the disease in or that they were its sole victims. Individuals were either sent to the infectious disease hospital or quarantined in the boardinghouses serving as their first destination in New York. . . .

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