The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood will open its new exhibit “Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America” on Oct. 10.
The exhibit tells the story of how Jews had to create their own health care in the face of discrimination in the U.S. It also explores how Jews have used medicine to assimilate into American society, and made contributions to the medical world and helped other underserved populations.
“Today Jewish physicians are ubiquitous in America,” said the exhibition’s chair of the advisory committee, Dr. Jeffrey L. Ponsky of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University, both in Cleveland. “It was not always so. The story of this evolution and the contributions of Jewish doctors to modern medicine are the focus of this exhibit.”
The exhibit was created by the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore, and features more than 200 artifacts, photos and documents. It also includes highlights from Cleveland’s Mt. Sinai Hospital. It will be on view from Oct. 10 to April 8, 2018.