Marek Tuszewicki

Broschiertes Buch

A Frog Under the Tongue

Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe

Beschreibung

At every stage, medicine proved an important field for cross-cultural contacts. Jewish historians and scholars of folk medicine alike will discover here fascinating sources never previously exploredâ manuscripts, printed publications, and memoirs in Yiddish and Hebrew but also in Polish, English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian.

Autor

Marek Tuszewicki is deputy director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. His publications include scholarly articles in Polish and English on Jewish folklore as well as Polish translations of Yiddish literature and his own Yiddish-language poetry. The Polish edition of this study was published in 2015. The book was awarded the Gierowski and Shmeruk Prize for the best book on the history and culture of Jews in Poland (2022) and was shortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award in 2021.

Produktdetails

• The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 235mm x 143mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781802075830
• ISBN-10: 1802075836
• Artikelnr.: 70165315