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Research featured in the New York Times

Research featured in the New York Times

Jul 20, 2020 | Health in the Early Modern World, News

My research was cited in an article by Michael Snyder, titled ‘What We Eat During a Plague’.

Recent Posts

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Potato Quote

‘My usually cautious parents were hardly the type to engage in dangerous activities, but soon after we got to Terezín we had finished eating most of the food we had brought with us, and we were hungry. . . . When we had an extra potato, we passed it from one family member to another—“you have it”—in what we called Jewish Ping-Pong.’

— Zuzana Justman, ‘My Terezín Diary’, The New Yorker, 16 Sept. 2019
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