The podcast of professor François Guesnet takes the listener into the realm of 19th century Hrubieszów. He presents the history of Jewish society in the course of 19th century, immediately after the outbreak of cholera.
In his lecture, professor Guesnet addresses the impact of cholera epidemics on Jewish community in 19th century Poland and its relationship with the state authorities during the plague. By listening to his podcast, one can find out how the magical thinking influenced Jewish folk medicine and what it had to do with Jewish burial society.
François Guesnet works at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University College London and specializes in the history of Jews of the last two centuries. He is an author of many research papers on the history of Eastern European Jewry.