Prof. Shaul Stampfer – Jewish responses to epidemics in the modern period | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie

Professor Shaul Stampfer opens the fourth podcast panel on History of Jewish responses to epidemics in the modern period.

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To explain the preconditions of the epidemics in modern times, professor Stampfer takes us on a journey through time and compares living conditions of a contemporary human to its hunter-gatherer ancestor.

Professor Stampfer shares in-depth analysis of Jewish responses to epidemics by presenting the confrontation of social classes; the political elite and doctors with religious minorities and the poor.

Shaul Stampfer is Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a scholar of East European Jewry specializing in the history of Lithuanian yeshivas and Jewish demographics.