Jews, Cadavers, and the Politics of Medical Discourses in East Central Europe

Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, where she teaches courses on the Holocaust and its aftermath, Eastern Europe, Jewish childhood, and the history of medicine. She serves as editor of East European Jewish Affairs and has written extensively on the history of Polish Jews and the Holocaust. She is completing a monograph on the so-called “Cadaver Affair” in medical schools in East Central Europe between two world wars.  

Aleksiun holds doctoral degrees from Warsaw University and New York University.