Medicine for the Jewish Nation: Pathologizing Jewish Orthodoxy in Maskilic Medical Discourse in the Late 18th Century

The article presented here aims to look at a discourse started by enlightened Jewish doctors in the late 18th century and that was taken up by the Haskalah. It is the collective discourse about the health of the Jews or, in the language of the time, of the “Jewish nation.” In the Prussian Haskalah a...

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Main Author: Schulte, Christoph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2025
In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Year: 2025, Volume: 77, Issue: 4, Pages: 352-379
Further subjects:B Medicine
B Judaism
B Reform
B Haskalah
B Orthodoxy
B 18th Century
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