History of humanitarianism, history of knowledge, social history of medicine, Jewish history, global history, history of Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th century, digital humanities, public history
Projects
Jewish Medical Humanitarianism in North Africa from the 1940s to the 1960s (Working Title)
On the initiative of local medicals, in the mid-1940s the Jewish health organization Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) became active in Morocco and North Africa. The organization established a variety of institutions and services, especially for the medical and preventive care of children. Among other illnesses, it specifically targeted what contemporaries termed “social diseases,” which at the time were attributed to hygienic deficiencies – focusing on the prevention and treatment of the three “T”: tuberculosis, teigne (ringworm) and trachoma. Analyzing the OSE´s engagement in North Africa, my PhD project aims at shedding new light on Jewish humanitarian internationalism through the lenses of “development,” decolonization, and international health politics after 1945.
