Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: the cultural universe of a sixteenth-century Jewish physician Medical (incl. Patients) The documents illuminate in fascinating

The documents illuminate in fascinating detail the efforts of large numbers of Jews to refashion themselves as they confronted major problems of the twentieth century: poverty

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Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: the cultural universe of a sixteenth-century Jewish physician Medical (incl. Patients) The documents illuminate in fascinatingIn describing the career of Abraham Yagel, a Jewish physician, kabbalist, and naturalist who lived in northern Italy from 1553 to about 1623, David Ruderman observes the remarkable interplay between early modern scientific thought and religious and occult traditions from a wholly new perspective: that of Jewish intellectual life. Whether he was writing about astronomical discoveries, demons, marvelous creatures and prodigies of nature, the uses of