The eleventh plague Jews and pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 / Jeremy Brown.
| Author/creator | Brown, Jeremy, 1964- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023] |
| Description | x, 494 ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Abstract | "In the nineteenth century, Rabbi Yehoshua Shlomo Ardit (1789-1876) noted how daily life in the towns and villages around Izmir in western Turkey, where he lived, was controlled by a predictable cycle of plagues and pandemics. Most business, he observed, was conducted during the winter months, while marriages were arranged around the Spring festival of Passover. "But after Passover it was not possible to do so, because then the overwhelming majority of people became ill with the plague (may we be spared). Sometimes the epidemic would last until the end of the Spring, which is why most of the inhabitants would have left for the villages and other hamlets." It is easy to overlook this eyewitness account, for it is not found in a diary or journal, but in a commentary on a talmudic tractate about the laws of Jewish marriage contracts. And yet, the reality of life in nineteenth century Turkey was that plagues and pandemics were so common that you could set your Jewish calendar by them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-476) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022042608 |
| ISBN | 9780197607183 |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |