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Some Proposals Submitted to the World Congress of Jewish Physicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2010

Emanuel Ringelblum
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The World Congress of Jewish Physicians is to be held during a very difficult period for the Jewish population. Grim reactionary policies and their sibling, anti-Semitism, pose a growing threat to all the beautiful ideas that humanity has created over the centuries. In the struggle between progress and reaction the whole world is experiencing in these uncertain times, the Jewish population is becoming a target of assault and attack.

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Historical Document
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Science in Context , Volume 23 , Special Issue 4: Science in an Israeli Context: Case Studies , December 2010 , pp. 581 - 586
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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References

1 Linath HaTzedek (or Ha-Tzedek) () (The Lodging of Justice) and Bikur Cholim () (Visiting of the Sick) were charity organizations destined to help poor sick Jews.

2 It is not clear what kind of source material Ringelblum was alluding to here. He may have had in mind Hasidic texts, partly written down and partly orally transmitted from generation to generation, which frequently displayed dialogic forms. According to Hasidic belief, tzaddiks [] were said to be able to provide medical assistance to the sick.

3 Current bibliographical tools do not enable establishing the identity of the text to which Ringelblum refers. It is clear that Sefer refu'ot ha-nikra ‘Ezer Yiśra'el: oyf polish taytsh geshriben, published in Yiddish by Moses (also Moshe) Markuze (also Marcuse) in the Polish town of Poritsk approximately in 1790 is the key reference of this passage. Markuze's book is a free adaptation of Samuel Auguste André David Tissot's Avis au peuple sur sa santé, published in Lausanne, Switzerland, by Grasse in 1761. It seems that the linguist and folklorist Noach Prylucki (1882–1944) published merely a supplement to the missing pages of Markuze's work.