{"id":2483,"date":"2020-08-18T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:27:23","slug":"making-bodies-kosher-the-politics-of-reproduction-among-haredi-jews-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2020\/08\/18\/making-bodies-kosher-the-politics-of-reproduction-among-haredi-jews-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Book Review by Angela Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Kasstan. Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England. Berghahn Books, 2019. 286 pages. ISBN: 9781789202281.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2484\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2020\/07\/Review-Davis-Angela-Making-Bodies-Kosher-The-Politics-of-Reproduction-among-Haredi-Jews-in-England.jpg\" alt=\"Making Bodies Kosher The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England\" width=\"274\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2020\/07\/Review-Davis-Angela-Making-Bodies-Kosher-The-Politics-of-Reproduction-among-Haredi-Jews-in-England.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2020\/07\/Review-Davis-Angela-Making-Bodies-Kosher-The-Politics-of-Reproduction-among-Haredi-Jews-in-England-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Making Bodies Kosher<\/em>, Ben Kasstan, a social and medical anthropologist, explores how Haredi (strictly religiously observant) Jews navigate the complexities of engaging with biomedical maternity and infant health services whilst maintaining, \u201clocal under-standings of how a Jewish body should be protected.\u201d Using a combination of archival records and oral histories to look at historical Jewish Manchester from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and ethnographic interviews he has conducted with Jewish families and medical figures living in contemporary contemporary Jewish Manchester, Kasstan shows how healthcare was and is a borderland where different understandings of well-being can coexist and sometimes compete. By doing so, the book firstly sheds light on how the ways through which individuals make sense of differing biomedical and religious models of health, and secondly on the position of ethnic and religious minorities in respect to mainstream medical institutions and beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>In part 1 Kaasten questions two received wisdoms within public health discourse: that Haredi Jews form a monolithic \u201cultra-Orthodox Jewish community\u201d and that this community is \u201cnon-compliant\u201d and \u201chard to reach.\u201d In chapter 1, Kasstan exposes the myth of the idea of a Jewish \u201ccommunity\u201d instead demonstrating the differences and divisions that have existed among Jews in the UK, and Manchester in particular, both historically and today. For example Jewish immigration in the late nineteenth century saw tensions between the existing UK Jewish community and the new incomers. In the late-nineteenth century this resulted in pressure placed on the immigrants by the established Jewish community to assimilate. In a similar way, today, there are anxieties from the mainstream Jewish community about the growing number of Haredi Jews, who are projected to form the majority of Jews in the UK by 2031. In chapter 2, Kasstan looks at the response of religious Jews \u2013 both among the immigrants of the nineteenth and early-twentieth century, whom he terms \u00e9migr\u00e9s, and the Haredi community today \u2013 which has been to to insulate their community from outside influences. However, Kassten shows that this is not an outright rejection of biomedicine, showing the misrepresentation of Hardei Jews \u201chard to reach\u201d. Rather, Kassten demonstrates how Religious Jews, both historically and today, have been involved in a process of negotiation between, \u201cbiomedical and Judaic cosmologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 then looks at this negotiation in two specific areas \u2013 maternity care (in chapter 3) and child vaccinations (in chapter 4). The interaction of Haredi Jews and NHS maternity services is an interesting and significant example of health care as borderland because childbirth is one of the few times when Haredim, \u201ctouch the outside world\u201d. The chapter principally focuses on the maternity care provided by Haredi doulas who, \u201cattempt to negotiate the delivery of NHS care around childbirth in order to make bodies kosher.\u201d In many ways they exemplify the idea of the borderland. They occupy a liminal space \u2013 they are there to support childbearing women, but also position themselves as being, \u201cadvantageous for the local NHS authority because they can contribute to making mainstream maternity services more accessible for Haredi Jews.\u201d They also blur the boundary between medical and lay care \u2013 they are not medical professionals, but operate in a medical space, and trade on their medical knowledge as well as that of Halacha (Jewish law). It would have been interesting at this point to also hear from NHS practitioners (there are no interviews with NHS practitioners except for a small number of Haredi midwives and doctors), to also understand their perspectives on operating within this important borderland. Chapter 4, which looks at childhood vaccinations, critiques the representation of Haredi Jews as being opposed to vaccinations because of their \u201creligious beliefs\u201d or \u201ccultural factors.\u201d Kasstan demonstrates that, rather than being something peculiar to Haredi Jewish parents, their hesitance and ambivalence towards vaccination reflects wider attitudes with the UK population. Again, Kasstan, powerfully shows the limits of the characterisation of Haredi Jews as \u201chard to reach,\u201d and the limits of the term within public health discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this is an accessible, interesting and fluently written book which is a useful and timely addition to the literature in this area. <em>Making Bodies Kosher<\/em> will prove a valuable resource to those engaged in medical humanities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Angela Davis is based in the Department of History and Geography at \u00c9cole Jeannine Manuel in Paris. 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