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On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe
Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
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Hardcover. Explores social additudes towards individuals on the margins of medieval European Jewish society. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
In medieval Europe, the much larger Christian population regarded Jews as their inferiors, but how did both Christians and Jews feel about those who were marginalised within the Ashkenazi Jewish community? In On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe, author Ephraim Shoham-Steiner explores the life and plight of three of these groups. Shoham-Steiner draws on a wide variety of late-tenth- to fifteenth-century material from both internal (Jewish) as well as external (non-Jewish) sources to reconstruct social attitudes toward these “others,” including lepers, madmen and the physically impaired. Shoham-Steiner considers how the ... Read more
In medieval Europe, the much larger Christian population regarded Jews as their inferiors, but how did both Christians and Jews feel about those who were marginalised within the Ashkenazi Jewish community? In On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe, author Ephraim Shoham-Steiner explores the life and plight of three of these groups. Shoham-Steiner draws on a wide variety of late-tenth- to fifteenth-century material from both internal (Jewish) as well as external (non-Jewish) sources to reconstruct social attitudes toward these “others,” including lepers, madmen and the physically impaired. Shoham-Steiner considers how the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814339312
SKU
V9780814339312
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About Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Ephraim Shoham-Steiner is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Shevah, Israel. He teaches medieval Jewish history and is a member of the scientific committee of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters and Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE) at Ben-Gurion University.
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