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A Frog Under the Tongue - Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
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A Frog Under the Tongue - Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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Shortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2021
Jews have been active participants in shaping the healing practices
of the communities of eastern Europe. Their approach largely
combined the ideas of traditional Ashkenazi culture with the
heritage of medieval and early modern medicine. Holy rabbis and
faith healers, as well as Jewish barbers, innkeepers, and pedlars,
all dispensed cures, purveyed folk remedies for different ailments,
and gave hope to the sick and their families based on kabbalah,
numerology, prayer, and magical Hebrew formulas. Nevertheless, as
new sources of knowledge penetrated the traditional world, modern
medical ideas gained widespread support. Jews became court
physicians to the nobility, and when the universities were opened
up to them many also qualified as doctors. At every stage, medicine
proved an important field for cross-cultural contacts. Jewish
historians and scholars of folk medicine alike will discover here
fascinating sources never previously explored-manuscripts, printed
publications, and memoirs in Yiddish and Hebrew but also in Polish,
English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian. Marek Tuszewicki's careful
study of these documents has teased out therapeutic advice,
recipes, magical incantations, kabbalistic methods, and practical
techniques, together with the ethical considerations that such
approaches entailed. His research fills a gap in the study of folk
medicine in eastern Europe, shedding light on little-known aspects
of Ashkenazi culture, and on how the need to treat sickness brought
Jews and their neighbours together.
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