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Natan M. Meir

Natan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies in the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. A scholar of the social, cultural, and religious history of East European Jewry, he is the author of Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859–1914 (2010) and Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 (2020). He also serves as a museum consultant and leads study tours of Eastern Europe with Ayelet Tours. 

The Jewish Decadence or the Decadence of Jews?

Natan M. Meir reviews the recently published book by Jonathan Freedman, “The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity.”...

CULTURAL STUDIES

The Cholera Wedding and Its Meaning for Our Time

I have spent the past decade studying the cholera wedding, a magical ritual that the Jews of Eastern Europe devised to ward off epidemics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The rite involved marrying off the outcasts of the community — ...

NATAN M. MEIR

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