This lecture investigates Jews as active participants in shaping the healing practices of eastern Europe.
This lecture introduces Marek Tuszewicki’s pioneering study of the history of popular medicine, which investigates Jews as active participants in shaping the healing practices of eastern Europe. This wide-ranging survey of sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, and many other languages fills a gap in the study of folk medicine in eastern Europe while also shedding light on little-known aspects of Ashkenazi culture and on cross-cultural contacts between Jews and their neighbours.
The book has been shortlisted by The Folklore Society for the Katharine Briggs Award 2021.