The Eleventh Plague
Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 March 2023
- ISBN 9780197607183
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages504 pages
- Size 237x164x39 mm
- Weight 826 g
- Language English 489
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Short description:
Written in a lively and compelling style, this book explains the hidden relationship between Judaism and the world of infectious disease. It combines history, medicine, science, and religion and gives us a new appreciation of how Jews and Judaism have been deeply shaped by plagues and pandemics, from ancient times up to the present.
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A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped the history of the Jewish people.
Plagues, pandemics, and infectious diseases have shaped the history of the Jewish people. Of course, there were the ten biblical plagues that famously smote the Egyptians--from the rain of frogs to the deaths of the firstborn--but that is just the start of the story. For the Talmudic Sages infectious diseases were part of the fundamental fabric of God's created world. In later times, however, disease was often thought to be caused by malign spells and incantations. A counter-magic developed to combat them. Amulets were deployed and miracle workers sought out. Surprisingly, Jeremy Brown shows, Jews sometimes even visited Christian shrines and beseeched the intervention of their saints. In 1348, when the Black Death swept through Europe, Jews fell victim both to the disease, for which they were blamed, and to the anti-Semitic violence that followed. At least 235 Jewish communities were persecuted even as Pope Clement IV ruled that anyone joining or authorizing the persecution would be excommunicated.
In The Eleventh Plague, Brown investigates the relation between Judaism and infectious diseases throughout the ages, from premodern and early-modern plagues, to rabbinic responses to smallpox and cholera, to the special vulnerabilities Jewish immigrants faced in the US as result of prejudice, and to the curious practice of ?Black Weddings? in which two orphans are married in a cemetery. Popularized during the 1918 influenza pandemic the practice was revived in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, showing that the intriguing relationship between Judaism and infectious disease remains relevant today.
Jeremy Brown's The Eleventh Plague is a monumental contribution to both the history of pandemics and to Jewish (medical) history. The content and staggering breadth of sources alone are well worth the purchase, but Jeremy's literary flair serves to elevate the reading experience. This book provides a much needed historical perspective that has been missing from our current pandemic discourse.
Table of Contents:
1. Five Golden Swellings; Pandemics in the Bible
2. The Angel of Death Walks in the Middle of the Road; Pandemics in the Talmud
3. A World Turned Upside Down; The Black Death and Bubonic Plague
4. All This Happens because of the Sins of Jacob
5. Pulverized Toads; Prayers, amulets and miracle workers
6. A Leaf of Healing; Smallpox, vaccination and hope
7. Your hand lay heavily on the inhabitants of this land; Cholera
8. Our Father Our King, Save us from this Plague; Religious responses to epidemics
9. Proper Precautions; The Jewish immigrant as a carrier of disease
10. So They Will Not Be Depressed; The Black Wedding
11. A Pandemic of Ignorance: Vaccination, hysteria and rabbinic responsibility
12. Jews and Judaism in the age of COVID
13. Conclusions
The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19
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