The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 - Jeremy Brown
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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.
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This post has 13 comments with rating of 5/5
July 14th, 2023
Jewish Pandemic would be a pretty cool heavy metal band name
July 14th, 2023
Thx, Mo.
July 14th, 2023
@Khameleon If the band were Nazis.
July 14th, 2023
@Gweilo or jews disguised as Nazis
July 14th, 2023
“…smote the Egyptians”
I love that word- Smote. It would be a great name for a NFL expansion team to the middle east:
NFL fans meet our newest team the JERUSALEM SMOTERS
Lets go Smoters Lets Go! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!
Lets go Smoters Lets Go! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!
They have a wicked linebacker who will throw down your QB and smote his ruin.
July 14th, 2023
Smote is just the early stage of the whole smitten phase (once being smited is concurrently over & done with).
July 14th, 2023
…or just any heavy metal band. Calm down Todd
July 14th, 2023
I don’t think all metal bands are nat socs, that’s a half-truth. P’haps Lemmy used to collect nazi memorabilia, but I don’t think that was political.
When he brought a Rolling Stone journalist around to his gaff for an arranged interview, it unfortunately looked like a shrine to nazism. Following an awkward moment, he explained that he couldn’t have put it all in the cupboard, because it wouldn’t fit.
“I only collect the stuff. I didn’t collect the ideas,” said he.
July 14th, 2023
Eat the rich, btw.
July 14th, 2023
Of course, Motörhead also deployed the very heavy umlaut, and German is an intensely umlaut-ish tongue.
July 14th, 2023
@caesar963 , how about, eat the masters? the rich are behind virtually every valuable technology and consumer product in today’s society, and it is pareto’s principle that proves 10% do 90% of the damage, being the military industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about. On a more relevant note, it would be nice to see more audio-books without a perpetual innocent “victim” bias when discussing this topic.
July 14th, 2023
Lemmy said to Eat the rich.
May 14th, 2025
Please reseed!!!
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