Turkey’s Increasing Belligerence, and What It Means for Israel
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How Europe’s First Jewish Medical-School Graduates Fought a 17th-Century Pandemic
The plague in Padua.
Even in ancient times, Jews were often associated with the practice of medicine, an association that persists in both the popular imagination and in reality to this day. Edward Reichman tells the story of the first European medical school to accept Jewish students, and their battles against the plague that swept through the continent in the 17th century:
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How Europe’s First Jewish Medical-School Graduates Fought a 17th-Century Pandemic
The plague in Padua.