Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing by Sunny S. Yudkoff

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Tubercular Capital: Illness and the Conditions of Modern Jewish Writing

Sunny S. Yudkoff

256 pages hardcover 2018

2 editions

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At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire. The incurable disease gave rise to a culture of convalescence, creating new opportunities for travel and literary refle...

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