Plague, Practice, and Prescriptive Text: Jewish Traditions on Fleeing Afflicted Cities in Early Modern Ashkenaz

Abstract This article studies the fate of a contradiction between practice and prescriptive text in 16th-century Ashkenaz. The practice was fleeing a plagued city, which contradicted a Talmudic passage requiring self-isolation at home when plague strikes. The emergence of this contradiction as a hal...

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Kaituhi matua: Chechik, Moshe Dovid (Author)
Ētahi atu kaituhi: Morsel-Eisenberg, Tamara
Hōputu: Tāhiko Tuhinga
Reo:English
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I whakaputaina: 2020
In: Journal of law, religion and state
Year: 2020, Huānga: 8, Tukunga: 2/3, Pages: 152-178
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Talmud / Pest / Quarantäne / Flucht / Aschkenasim / Halacha
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BH Judaism
TJ Modern history
ZA Social sciences
Further subjects:B Plague
B Early Modern
B Jewish Law
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