| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America. By Alan M. Kraut and Deborah A. Kraut. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. x, 304 pp. $37.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-39100-2.)

Hospitals are complex entities. Examining the transformation of a northeastern urban Jewish hospital from its Progressive Era roots to its current incarnation as part of the St. Barnabas Health Care System, Alan M. Kraut and Deborah A. Kraut find constancy in the ability of Newark Beth Israel Hospital to adapt to new medical, economic, social, and demographic realities during the twentieth century. In the process, they argue, "the Beth" resisted being swallowed up by private for-profit health care systems and retained its Jewish identity and its urban location, while becoming a regional medical center in the metropolitan New York area.

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