TY - BOOK ID - 77869241 TI - Covenant of Care AU - Kraut, Alan M., AU - Kraut, Deborah PY - 2006 SN - 1281244236 9786611244231 0813542391 9780813542393 9781281244239 0813539102 9780813539102 PB - New Brunswick, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Judaism KW - Hospitals, Voluntary KW - History, 20th Century KW - History, 19th Century KW - Hospitals, Religious KW - Jewish hospitals KW - Voluntary hospitals KW - Religious Hospitals KW - Hospital, Religious KW - Religious Hospital KW - 20th Cent. History (Medicine) KW - 20th Cent. History of Medicine KW - 20th Cent. Medicine KW - Historical Events, 20th Century KW - History of Medicine, 20th Cent. KW - History, Twentieth Century KW - Medical History, 20th Cent. KW - Medicine, 20th Cent. KW - 20th Century History KW - 20th Cent. Histories (Medicine) KW - 20th Century Histories KW - Cent. Histories, 20th (Medicine) KW - Cent. 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(Medicine) KW - Histories, 19th Century KW - Histories, Nineteenth Century KW - History, 19th Cent. (Medicine) KW - Nineteenth Century Histories KW - Nineteenth Century History KW - Hospitals Privates, Not-for-Profit KW - Not-for-Profit Hospitals Private KW - Not-for-Profit Hospitals Privates KW - Private, Not-for-Profit Hospitals KW - Voluntary Hospitals KW - Hospitals, Private, Not-for-Profit KW - Hospital, Voluntary KW - Hospitals Private, Not-for-Profit KW - Hospitals Privates, Not for Profit KW - Not for Profit Hospitals Private KW - Not for Profit Hospitals Privates KW - Private, Not for Profit Hospitals KW - Privates, Not-for-Profit Hospitals KW - Voluntary Hospital KW - Jewish Ethics KW - Ethics, Jewish KW - Jews KW - history KW - History. KW - Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. KW - Newark Beth Israel Medical Center KW - Newark Beth Israel Hospital UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77869241 AB - Where were you born? Were you born at the Beth? Many thousands of Americans-Jewish and non-Jewish-were born at a hospital bearing the Star of David and named Beth Israel, Mount Sinai, or Montefiore. In the United States, health care has been bound closely to the religious impulse. Newark Beth Israel Hospital is a distinguished modern medical institution in New Jersey whose history opens a window on American health care, the immigrant experience, and urban life. Alan M. and Deborah A. Kraut tell the story of this important institution, illuminating the broader history of voluntary nonprofit hospitals created under religious auspices initially to serve poor immigrant communities. Like so many Jewish hospitals in the early half of the twentieth century, "the Beth" cared not only for its own community's poor and underprivileged, a responsibility grounded in the Jewish traditions of tzedakah ("justice") and tikkun olam ("to heal the world"), but for all Newarkers. Since it first opened its doors in 1902, the Beth has been an engine of social change. Jewish women activists and immigrant physicians founded an institution with a nonsectarian admissions policy and a welcome mat for physicians and nurses seeking opportunity denied them by anti-Semitism elsewhere. Research, too, flourished at the Beth. Here dedicated medical detectives did path-breaking research on the Rh blood factor and pacemaker development. When economic shortfalls and the Great Depression threatened the Beth's existence, philanthropic contributions from prominent Newark Jews such as Louis Bamberger and Felix Fuld, the efforts of women volunteers, and, later, income from well-insured patients saved the institution that had become the pride of the Jewish community. The Krauts tell the Beth Israel story against the backdrop of twentieth-century medical progress, Newark's tumultuous history, and the broader social and demographic changes altering the landscape of American cities. Today, the United States, in the midst of another great wave of immigration, once again faces the question of how to provide newcomers with culturally sensitive and economically accessible medical care. Covenant of Care will inform and inspire all those working to meet these demands, offering a compelling look at the creative ways that voluntary hospitals navigated similar challenges throughout the twentieth century. ER -