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Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague

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"A wave of plague ravaged the cities of northern Italy in 1630-31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it affected people, institutions, and beliefs; how individuals and institutions responded; and how they did or did not try to remember and memorialize it"--

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781512822878
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 272
  • Udgivet:
  • 11. oktober 2022
  • Størrelse:
  • 231x23x155 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 540 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 11. december 2024
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"A wave of plague ravaged the cities of northern Italy in 1630-31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it affected people, institutions, and beliefs; how individuals and institutions responded; and how they did or did not try to remember and memorialize it"--

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