Pestilence, Plague and Perseverance

Jeremy Brown’s Eleventh Plague captures Jewish responses to pandemics from across the millennia.

Jeremy Brown MD is Director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health.

He trained as an emergency physician in Boston, and prior to joining the NIH he worked in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University in Washington DC.
He is the author of New Heavens and a New Earth; The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought, published by Oxford University Press, and Influenza: the one-hundred year hunt to cure the deadliest disease in history, published by Simon and Schuster.

His most recent book is The Eleventh Plague; Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19, published by Oxford University Press, which won the 2024 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought.

He writes on science, medicine and Judaism at Talmudology.com.