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In this episode, I track the origins and routes of transmission of three devastating Russian epidemics: 1348 Black Plague, 1892 Cholera, and 1921 Malaria outbreaks. Why did these diseases follow the same routes and all have the same areas of origin?

How can we connect the cholera epidemic of 1892 to Russian Jewish mass migration? It's more complicated than one might imagine. Come along for the journey as we deconstruct the stereotype of the disease-ridden Jewish immigrant.

This 19th Century English map of European Russia is annotated to show the 1892 spread of cholera up the Volga River, spreading 12,000 miles in 12 days from Astrakhan to Saratof to Samara to Simbirsk to Nizhni-Novgorod. This map highlights just how…