Jeremy Brown is a physician and historian of science and medicine and directs the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. His previous books include Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish reception of Copernican Thought, Cardiology Emergencies, and as editor, The Oxford American Handbook of Emergency Medicine.

• 1. Five Golden Swellings; Pandemics in the Bible2. The Angel of Death Walks in the Middle of the Road; Pandemics in the Talmud3. A World Turned Upside Down; The Black Death and Bubonic Plague4. All This Happens because of the Sins of Jacob5. Pulverized Toads; Prayers, amulets and miracle workers6. A Leaf of Healing; Smallpox, vaccination and hope7. Your hand lay heavily on the inhabitants of this land; Cholera 8. Our Father Our King, Save us from this Plague; Religious responses to epidemics9. Proper Precautions; The Jewish immigrant as a carrier of disease10. So They Will Not Be Depressed; The Black Wedding11. A Pandemic of Ignorance: Vaccination, hysteria and rabbinic responsibility12. Jews and Judaism in the age of COVID13. Conclusions

Jeremy Brown's The Eleventh Plague is a monumental contribution to both the history of pandemics and to Jewish (medical) history. The content and staggering breadth of sources alone are well worth the purchase, but Jeremy's literary flair serves to elevate the reading experience. This book provides a much needed historical perspective that has been missing from our current pandemic discourse.

Jeremy Brown is a physician and historian of science and medicine and directs the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. His previous books include Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish reception of Copernican Thought, Cardiology Emergencies, and as editor, The Oxford American Handbook of Emergency Medicine.

• 1. Five Golden Swellings; Pandemics in the Bible2. The Angel of Death Walks in the Middle of the Road; Pandemics in the Talmud3. A World Turned Upside Down; The Black Death and Bubonic Plague4. All This Happens because of the Sins of Jacob5. Pulverized Toads; Prayers, amulets and miracle workers6. A Leaf of Healing; Smallpox, vaccination and hope7. Your hand lay heavily on the inhabitants of this land; Cholera 8. Our Father Our King, Save us from this Plague; Religious responses to epidemics9. Proper Precautions; The Jewish immigrant as a carrier of disease10. So They Will Not Be Depressed; The Black Wedding11. A Pandemic of Ignorance: Vaccination, hysteria and rabbinic responsibility12. Jews and Judaism in the age of COVID13. Conclusions

Jeremy Brown's The Eleventh Plague is a monumental contribution to both the history of pandemics and to Jewish (medical) history. The content and staggering breadth of sources alone are well worth the purchase, but Jeremy's literary flair serves to elevate the reading experience. This book provides a much needed historical perspective that has been missing from our current pandemic discourse.

Jeremy Brown is a physician and historian of science and medicine and directs the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. His previous books include Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish reception of Copernican Thought, Cardiology Emergencies, and as editor, The Oxford American Handbook of Emergency Medicine.

• 1. Five Golden Swellings; Pandemics in the Bible2. The Angel of Death Walks in the Middle of the Road; Pandemics in the Talmud3. A World Turned Upside Down; The Black Death and Bubonic Plague4. All This Happens because of the Sins of Jacob5. Pulverized Toads; Prayers, amulets and miracle workers6. A Leaf of Healing; Smallpox, vaccination and hope7. Your hand lay heavily on the inhabitants of this land; Cholera 8. Our Father Our King, Save us from this Plague; Religious responses to epidemics9. Proper Precautions; The Jewish immigrant as a carrier of disease10. So They Will Not Be Depressed; The Black Wedding11. A Pandemic of Ignorance: Vaccination, hysteria and rabbinic responsibility12. Jews and Judaism in the age of COVID13. Conclusions

Jeremy Brown's The Eleventh Plague is a monumental contribution to both the history of pandemics and to Jewish (medical) history. The content and staggering breadth of sources alone are well worth the purchase, but Jeremy's literary flair serves to elevate the reading experience. This book provides a much needed historical perspective that has been missing from our current pandemic discourse.