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One day I came back from my synagogue and sat down in my room to take breakfast—a bowl of milk and some bread, instead of the compote juice and butter cake that had been my customary…
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Mordechai Aaron Gintsburg
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1863
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On the signs of the plague and the poisonous fever that is called pestilence, and how a person should conduct himself to guard himself from them, in accordance with the nature of this lower…
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Abraham Yagel
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1587
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This bronze physician’s mortar from Verona, Italy, is decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked by the Hebrew letters mem and resh, likely the initials for the Hebrew term for “physician’s…
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Servius de Levis
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Verona, Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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On the preservation of one’s health when going to sleep and upon awakening. Our master, of blessed memory, wrote the following in laws 4 and 5 [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-mada, hilkhot de‘ot…
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Jacob Tsahalon
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1683
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In correctly understanding the truest theory, there were many opinions; but I will bring two…
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Tuviah ha-Kohen
Places:
Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1707
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The Ḥaydakim [Bacteria] and Their Characteristics[ . . . ] There are grounds for thinking that, apart from the absence of alcoholism, there are also race factors among Jews that play a certain role…
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Mordechai Borochov
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1913
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Boys, honor the pregnant woman. Treat her carefully and care for her, for who knows the merit of the essence already formed in the womb?
The greatest individuals on earth, pillars of society, and…
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Ḥayim Zuta
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa)
Date:
1908
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Inasmuch as the association of balbirer [artisan barbers] have seen boys break away from their masters and think of themselves as expert physicians, and, on account of which, they have failed in…
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The Guild of Barbers of Kraków
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1639
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On Sunday 3 Tammuz 5416, the lords, their honors, the wardens, may the Rock preserve them, gathered together and once again accepted master Yontil the balbirer [barber] to be the expert physician for…
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The Jewish Community of Kraków
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1657
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Meat strengthens the body and provides it better nourishment than the other foods. Right after slaughtering it is very good and useful, but old meat is one of the causes of illness. The hard meat of…
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David de Silva
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century