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The principal street in the fair, Nijni-Novgorod, Russia

In Alexander Keith Johnson's map of Saint Petersburg, the perspective of the city takes an alternative view, with the city itself placed on the periphery as it shows its spacial location as compared to the great cities and nations of the Baltic

The map shows the borders of the Pale of Settlement in the Russian empire from 1825-1917, as well as the main gateway of Jewish emigration from 1800-1914.

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.

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