Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, Crossing the Jabbock: illness and death in Ashkenazi Judaism in sixteenth- through nineteenthcentury Prague, transl. Carol Cosman, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1997, pp. xviii, 303, illus., £37.50, $45.00 (0-520-08149-8).

Sander L Gilman

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Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, Crossing the Jabbock: illness and death in Ashkenazi Judaism in sixteenth- through nineteenthcentury Prague, transl. Carol Cosman, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1997, pp. xviii, 303, illus., £37.50, $45.00 (0-520-08149-8).

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Information: Medical History , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 260 - 261

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Sylvie-Anne Goldberg, Crossing the Jabbock: illness and death in Ashkenazi Judaism in sixteenth- through nineteenthcentury Prague, transl. Carol Cosman, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1997, pp. xviii, 303, illus., £37.50, $45.00 (0-520-08149-8).

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