Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America

by Alan M. Kraut, Deborah A. Kraut, Deborah A Kraut

Winner of the 2008 Author's Award from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813539102
• ISBN13: 9780813539102
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"