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This map shows the spread of Cholera within European Russia. The main river systems are shown and labeled, and it is from this that we can see that the first incursion into European Russia happened in the lower stretches of the Don and Volga Rivers.…

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You know, I remember back when I barely thought about pandemics and epidemics or really any kind of -demics. But today, we are faced with it constantly. And understanding that these…

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.