At the Jewish Museum TODAY

I heard a fascinating talk by Dr. Alan Kraut (A history professor from American University in DC, 

who specializes in US Immigration). He posed the question:

What happens after immigration? 
He spoke of 19th C immigration into the US, with an emphasis on the Jews who came to America. 

He was highly informative, especially for me, with my background.

Then I walked thru the new exhibit: 

Beyond Chicken Soup

Jews & Medicine in America 

There is so much to study at the exhibit that I will have to go back and see it again.  As a member I can
bring a friend for free on Wednesday.   I would highly recommend that you all go see it.  I believe
the exhibit will be there until June 2016

I'm a Registered Nurse who trained at a Jewish Hospital in Baltimore, a city where we had a lot of immigrants.

My mother's sister trained at that hospital, before me, as did the Sinai doctor my aunt married.
When I did private duty nursing at Sinai, one of my patients had typhoid.
And I was a PHN, a Public Health Nurse in south east Baltimore, near the piers where immigrants lived in

tight urban settings.  We had tuberculosis clinics in Baltimore in the 1960's, and I made home visits to many

Tb patients.

I am hands-on familiar with what Doctor K described. Immigrants brought in bugs that were new to us. 
I took Johns Hopkins public health physicians on a Fell's Point walking tour to describe and point out the
neighborhood's role as a source of so many communicable diseases.

The museum's exhibit covers much of the early history of Jewish men becoming doctors, as opposed to baseball players,

a topic Dr. Kraut covered in his hour-plus talk.  I wasn't bored for a minute!    Zippy

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