After the Black Death: Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews (The Middle Ages Series)

Synopsis

In After The Black Death, Susan L. Einbinder Uncovers Jewish Responses To Plague And Violence In Fourteenth-century Provence And Iberia. Einbinder's Original Research Reveals A Wide, Heterogeneous Series Of Jewish Literary Responses To The Plague, Including Sephardic Liturgical Poetry; A Medical Tractate Written By The Jewish Physician Abraham Caslari; Epitaphs Inscribed On The Tombstones Of Twenty-eight Jewish Plague Victims Once Buried In Toledo; And A Heretofore Unstudied Liturgical Lament Written By Moses Nathan, A Survivor Of An Anti-jewish Massacre That Occurred In Tàrrega, Catalonia, In 1348--jacket Flap. Chapter 1. Before The Plague: Anti-jewish Violence And The Pastoureaux -- Chapter 2. Emanuel Ben Joseph: Trauma And The Commemorative Lament -- Chapter 3. Abraham Caslari: A Jewish Physician On The Plague -- Chapter 4. Stones Of Memory: The Toledo Epitaphs Chapter -- 5. Bones And Poems: Perpetrators And Victims. Susan L. Einbinder. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.