Medicine and the German Jews: a history

to graduate in medicine from Glasgow University. Asher departed for London in 1862 to become medical practitioner to the Jewish Board of Guardians and, in 1870, was appointed the first secretary of the newly formed United Synagogue. By 1914, about twenty Scottish Jews had graduated in medicine although only four were practising in Glasgow, among whom was Noah Morris who became Regius Professor of Materia Medica at Glasgow University (1937). For most, however, the medical degree was the passport out of the community. This book is a valuable resource for historians of ethnicity, social historians of medicine and anyone interested in immigrant health and problems of acculturation-as relevant today as in early twentieth-century Scotland.