Asher Asher MD LRCS (Ed.): Victorian Physician and Medical Reformer

Details of Asher Asher can be found in: Collins K. Asher Asher MD (1837–1889). Doctor of the poor. Glasgow Medicine 1984; 2: 11–14; Collins K. Go and Learn: The International Story of the Jews and Medicine in Scotland 1739–1945. Aberdeen: Mercat Press, 1988: 51–4; Collins K. Second City Jewry: The Jews of Glasgow in the Age of Expansion: 1790–1919. Glasgow: Scottish Jewish Archives, 1990: 44; Kohn-Zedek D. Asher Bet (in Hebrew) bound with Asher Asher MD 1837–1889: Collected Writings. London (privately published), 1916; The Jewish Encyclopaedia. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1925: vol. 2, pp. 180–1

Collins K. Go and Learn (op. cit. ref. 1): 11–13

Lamb M. The medical profession. In: Checkland O Lamb M , Eds. Health Care as Social History: The Glasgow Case. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1982: 17

Robertson E. Glasgow's Doctor: James Burn Russell: 1837–1910. East Linton: Tucknell Press, 1998: 17

Lamb M (op. cit. ref. 3): 37

Collins K. Go and Learn (op. cit. ref. 1): 55

Gaffney R. Poor law hospitals: 1845–1914. In: Checkland O Lamb M , Eds. Health Care as Social History: The Glasgow Case. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1982: 17

Minutes of the West Cadder Parochial Medical Board, 1858–1862. Greater Glasgow Health Board Archives, Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Kohn-Zedek D (op. cit. ref. 1): xv

Lamb M (op. cit. ref. 3): 20

Kohn-Zedek D (op. cit. ref. 1): xv—xvi

Marks L. Model Mothers: Jewish Mothers and Maternity Provision East London 1870–1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994: 32

Annual reports of the London Jewish Board of Guardians (LJBG) 1862–1866, MS 173, Hartley Library, University of Southampton (with other LJBG papers, below)

Annual report LJBG, 1862

Annual report LJBG, 1863

LJBG Subcommittee on Medical Relief, 28 June 1861, filed with memorandum submitted to the Medical Committee of the Jewish Board of Guardians, 26 May 1873

Hardy A. Cholera, quarantine and the English preventive system. Med Hist 1993; 37: 255

Kohn-Zedek D (op. cit. ref. 1)

Ibid.: xviii–ix; see also annual reports of LJBG 1866, 1867; obituaries of Asher Asher in Asher Asher (op. cit. ref. 1)

Glasgow Jewish Board of Guardians, annual reports 1912–1916, Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, Garnethill Synagogue

Quoted in obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 11 January 1889

Minutes of the Visitation Committee of the United Synagogue, 2712, 18 March 1885. In London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB, UK (with other United Synagogue papers, below)

Minutes of the Executive of the United Synagogue: 1870–1902, p. 394. Minutes of the Executive Committee of the LJBG, 1866, 1874

Letter from Asher Asher and Lionel L Cohen to LJBG. Letter Book of the United Synagogue, 2712/6/1, 1 April 1871

Memorandum to the Medical Committee of the LJBG, 26 May 1873

LJBG annual report, 1869

Minutes of the LJBG Council, 1873

Marks L (op. cit. ref. 12): 109

Minutes of the Medical Committee, LJBG, 3 September 1873

Minutes of the Medical Committee, LJBG, 5 January 1874

Annual report, LJBG, 1873; Minutes of the Medical Committee, LJBG, 13 January 1879

Marks L (op. cit. ref. 12): 109

Rozin M. The Rich and the Poor: Jewish Philanthropy and Social Control in Nineteenth Century London. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999: 179–80

Sonnenfeld R. Shlomo Zalman Guardian of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, adapted by Hillel Danziger R. New York: Mesorah, 1983: 260–1

Notes on circumcision, in Asher Asher (op. cit. ref. 1): 99

Ibid.: 107

For metsitsa see Homa B. Metzitza. London, 1966; Katz J. Divine Law in Human Hands: Case Studies in Halachic Flexibility. Jerusalem: Magness Press, 1998: 320–402; Jacobs L. Theology in the Response. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, 1975: 212; Jakobovits I. Jewish Medical Ethics. New York: Bloch, 1967: 195–6. For a view of how the issue has been understood in contemporary society, see Gilman S. The Jew's Body. New York: Routledge, 1991: 93–6, 155–7; Gilman S. Freud, Race and Gender. Princeton University Press, 1993: 45 65 69 86 89; Hyam R. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990: 77–9

Newman E. The Responsa of Dayan Jacob Reinowitz 1818–1893. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 1971; 23: 22–3. Notes and correspondence of Asher Asher, MS159: AS166/9, Hartley Library, University of Southampton, letters from Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler, 21 March 1872, 30 October 1872, 9 December 1872

Asher A. The Jewish Rite of Circumcision with its Laws and Prayers Appertaining Thereto, Translated into English with an Introductory Essay by Asher Asher MD. London, 1873: preface, 27

Notes and correspondence of Asher Asher (op. cit. ref. 38)

Asher A (op. cit. ref. 39): 27; Asher Asher (op. cit. ref. 1): 129

Gilman S. Freud, Race and Gender (op. cit. ref. 37): 66

Asher Asher (op. cit. ref. 1): 129

Minute Book of the United Synagogue, 1870–1879: vol. I, 25 April 1873. In London Metropolitan Archives

Ibid.

Schlich T. Medicalisation and secularisation: the Jewish ritual bath as a problem of hygiene: Germany 1820s–1840s. Social History of Medicine 1995; 8: 423–42

Asher Asher (op. cit. ref. 1): 52–7

Jewish Chronicle, 3 November 1882

Funeral oration by Chief Rabbi Dr Herman Adler, Bayswater Synagogue. In: Asher Asher (op. cit. ref. 1): 191

Jewish Chronicle, 11 January 1889