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Michael Reese Hospital

The Late Great Michael Reese The Wider Context of a Lost Local Treasure

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  • ABOUT Alan Kraut

    Alan M. Kraut is a professor of history at American University in Washington, D.C. His books include The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921, and Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace,” which won the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book in History. Kraut is currently an advisor to the PBS program, History Detectives.

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  • ABOUT Dr. Marc Slutsky

    Dr. Marc Slutsky combines the practice of psychiatry with service in the Chicago Jewish community. He was a co-founder and is now president of the Aitz Hayim Center for Jewish Living, has been on the board of the Jewish Federation and now serves on the boards of the Michael Reese Health Trust, the Community Foundation for Jewish Education and the Jewish Community Centers.

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  • ABOUT Rhoda Rosen

    Raised and schooled in South Africa, Rhoda Rosen came to the U.S. as a Rockefeller Institute Residency Fellow to the Institute for Advanced Research and Study in the African Humanities at Northwestern University. She is the former director of Spertus Museum, and is currently an independent curator while serving as adjunct associate professor in arts administration and policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 14, 2010.

From its founding in 1881 until it closed in 2009, Michael Reese Hospital touched the lives of countless individuals and diverse communities in Chicago. It spanned the arc from a time when hospitals were places of institutionalization to one in which they became places of community. Join Alan Kraut, professor of history at American University and the leading historian of immigration and medicine, Dr. Marc Slutsky, a former Reese doctor, and historian and curator Rhoda Rosen as they place Michael Reese in the larger context of ethnic / religious hospitals in America.

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