Index
abusive
29, 143
Adam
78, 92–93, 164n20, 181n4, 192, 206
aging
54, 70n3, 98, 101, 104
ageism
87
elderly
95, 153
old age
51, 87, 94–95, 97–98
air
12, 55, 57n52, 58, 60, 108, 110–111, 114, 144, 192–193
al-Andalus
108
Alexandria
v, 3, 6, 9, 43, 45, 55, 56n48, 61, 62n69, 64–68
alienation
115, 212
Americanisation
218
Amidah
101
amulet
191, 193
anatomy
anatomical
77, 193, 199
anatomists
77n33, 195, 198, 201
animal
3n6, 45, 54n44, 58, 61
anthropology
2, 44
Antisemitism
12, 13n58, 14n65, 19–20, 210
antisemites
209
antisemitic
13–14, 20, 211
anxiety
56, 139, 195, 212
apotheosis
47
appetite
58, 211
Aristotle
3–4, 6, 47, 57, 197
Aristotelian
113, 125, 128
asceticism
63, 65
Asklepios
7, 45
astrological
193
athlete
47, 57, 63, 97–98
athletic
4n15, 56, 63, 97
atonement
30
Day of Atonement
101–2
Augustus
5, 47n19, 66, 97
Avenzoar
12, 21, 119n44, 131
Avicenna
12, 200–201
Ba’alei Shem
18, 190, 192–193
Bagdad
10–11
balance
5, 6n21, 49, 53, 61, 71, 108, 110–111, 192, 252
bathing
111–113, 127
baths
5, 9, 12, 61
beauty
5, 32, 48, 64, 80, 98–99, 101n43, 200, 217, 219
bereavement
31, 135
Betar
15, 221
Black Death
11, 13, 17, 20, 133, 134n3, 135n9, 138, 140n40–n42, 149n75, 150n80, 156–157
Blau-Weiss movement
15
blessing
5
blood
12, 13n59, 30, 74, 78, 82n42, 110, 152, 192, 194, 200, 233
bleeding
10
blood libels
12–13
bloodletting
189
bloodshed
100, 233–234, 238n22, 248
Bohemia
138, 145, 151, 153–154, 157, 214n29, 227–228
bone
71, 74–78, 199–200
brain
74, 238n24
Caliphate
10
caliphs
11
cancer
14
cannibalism
29
captivity
25
Catalonia
61n63, 65, 120
cemetery
146
censorship
138, 145
childbirth
9, 10n39, 46, 53, 147
children
10, 25, 30, 33, 36n47, 46, 53, 56, 101n43, 102, 121, 123–124, 147–148, 153, 155, 215
Christian
vii, 1n1, 7, 8n27, 13, 17, 20–21, 63n70, 97–98, 108–109, 114–115, 118, 126, 132, 137–138, 143–146, 152–155, 157, 170n39, 195, 199, 211
climate
14, 16, 59, 198, 208, 222
clothes
12, 127
compassion
31, 35, 38, 236
compassionate
33
complexion
171n43
Conservative movement
218
contagion
139, 141, 146
Cordoba
10
cosmetics
124
cosmology
141
countryside
9, 61
covenant
2, 94
Covid-19
14, 23n1
creation
v, 46, 53, 54n44, 69, 110n11, 129, 210n10, 219n48, 222, 227
creation story
10, 53–54
creatures
44–45, 47, 192
dancer
57
death
2, 5, 19, 46, 47n19, 54, 60–61, 96–98, 102, 138–139, 147–148, 151, 190, 231n1, 233n6, 234–248, 250, 251n62, 252, 253n64, 256
debauchery
9, 58, 65
delicacy
58–59
demon
7, 188–189, 191, 193, 196, 202
demonology
190
diet
5, 9, 12, 17–18, 57n52, 58–59, 65, 109, 111, 121, 173n55, 192, 200, 208, 217, 223
dietetics
12, 111, 119
digestion
192, 212
dignity
3, 37n52, 54n44, 93, 96, 142–143, 234, 253n65
disability
4
disabled
53
disobedience
2, 92–93
doctor
5, 10–11, 13, 138, 140, 144–146, 200–201, 223, 232, 239n27, 248, 251n62, 254
dream
108, 152
drink
5, 55, 57, 98, 101–102, 108, 110, 141, 152
drug
64, 145, 232, 235, 245
dualism
7, 70
Dying Patients Law
19, 232, 251, 253
ecological
209
effeminate
52, 95
Egypt
15, 45, 53n37, 55, 67, 88, 90, 172n50, 176
Egyptian
11, 43, 50n27, 65, 73n19, 86, 90
elites
8, 26n12, 125
embodied
3, 28, 69
emotion
111, 124–125, 150, 200
emotional
28, 38
empathy
24, 33–35, 37, 39, 251
empathetic
28n20, 33–34, 36, 251n62
empathise
24, 34, 38
environment
6, 15, 35, 55–56, 59, 63, 69, 75, 110, 113–114, 118, 121n62, 138, 196, 201, 208, 212, 214–216, 225–226
environmental
7, 12, 141
Epidauros
45
epidemic
14, 61, 127, 133–134, 138–139, 145–147, 153n95, 154–155
epidemiological
17, 133
equality
48–49, 78
Esau
2
eschatological
2
esoteric
197, 199
euthanasia
19, 232, 234–235, 238–239, 241–244, 246n46, 248–249, 251–252, 254
excretion
108
exercise
2, 4–5, 9, 12, 16, 45, 47, 54, 56–57, 65, 92, 96, 108, 111–113, 123, 142, 192, 208–209, 212, 218n44, 220, 222–223, 225, 227
exertion
4, 57, 63
exile
209, 217
Exodus narrative
90
famine
29, 31n33, 33
fast
101–102, 142, 240
fasting
101–103, 154
fatness
fat
58–59, 65, 172n49, 199–200
fat body
59
feelings
28n20, 69, 140, 143, 211, 214
fertility
9, 10n38, 123
fitness
59, 96, 202, 225
folk traditions
141
food
3, 5, 8–10, 16, 25, 56–59, 65, 69, 82–83, 101–102, 108, 110–111, 113, 116, 119, 125–126, 141, 152, 217, 222
foodstuffs
8, 57, 82n42, 108, 111–112
foreskin
190
frailty
46, 94–95, 97–98, 104
Franz Kafka
211, 213–214, 226, 228, 230
fumigation
141
funeral
24, 147
Galen
10, 12, 18, 43, 49n25, 66, 107, 110–111, 113, 118–119, 124, 129–130, 160n5, 192, 197, 201
Garden of Eden
46, 92–93, 125n79, 128
gemilut hesed
147
gender
4, 34, 52, 54, 75, 79, 96, 122
gendered
9, 17, 52, 78, 109, 121, 125
genealogy
3
genocide
14
ghetto
199
Goliath
96
good things
1, 5, 48, 50, 64–65
grief
16, 23, 25–27, 31, 149–150
grieving
138
guilt
27
gymnastics
4, 56, 222–223
gynaecology
124
gynaecological
54, 122–123
hair
74, 95, 212
happiness
3, 47, 217
happy
48, 63, 200
harassment
13
Hassidic
213
health system
18, 115, 227
heart
30, 69, 71, 76, 153, 189, 193, 200, 236n14, 238n24, 239, 251n62
Herod
91–92, 96, 104
heroism
97, 217, 222, 247
Hibbat Zion movement
210
Hippocrates
6, 18, 43, 44n7, 59, 118, 201
Hippocratic
v, 4–6, 9–10, 19, 21, 43, 49, 53n33, 60, 64–66, 107, 110, 115–116
Holocaust
36n47, 40, 136, 137n20, 153, 224n68, 227
homelessness
31
hospital
13, 146, 215, 219, 235n12
household utensils
127
housing
8, 146, 208
humiliation
30, 32, 53n37, 143
humorism
192–193, 195–197, 201–202
hybridity
44
Hygieia
1, 7, 16, 45, 60, 64–65
hygiene
8, 11–12, 114, 116, 208
hygienic
4
hysterical
54
iatromechanics
193
Iberia
114, 121, 122n66, 129
identity
25n7, 31, 38, 44, 71, 100, 195, 211, 214, 218, 225n71
idolatry
217
image of God
3, 70n3, 78, 233
immortality
46–47, 61
immortal
46, 51
imperialism
8, 17, 87n2, 88, 91, 94, 103
impurity
71–72, 75, 77, 82n42
industrialisation
216
infection
13, 143, 151, 191
infectious disease
9, 13, 60
Inquisition
126
intercourse
72, 100, 111, 113, 123
Islam
10, 11n44, 21, 61n63, 67, 111n14, 131
Islamicate
107–109, 113, 115
Italy
11, 17, 88, 91, 115, 120, 125n81, 129, 138, 159n4, 163n15, 181n3, 192n64, 199, 203–204
Jacob
2, 10n39, 20, 93–94, 118–119, 122, 140n38, 146n64, 155, 163n14–n15, 181n1, 190n51, 191, 193, 196, 197n88–n89, 232n5, 256
Jerusalem
vii, 10n43, 19, 23, 25n7, 28, 29n22, 30–35, 37–38, 41, 70n5, 72n15, 73n20, 76n25, 77, 80n38, 84–86, 89n7, 105, 140n39, 165n23, 168n34, 181n4, 182n9, 183n14, 184n19, 185n20, 190n54, n56, 191n61, 195n79, 196n81, 197n84, 197n88, 200n103, 203–206, 216, 219–220, 233n5, 234n8, 235n12, 237n21, 246n44, 249n57, 251n61, 254–256
Jewish Emancipation
212, 214
Jewish homeland
15, 209, 216–217, 221, 226
Jewish quarter
138, 142, 144–146, 153
Joseph
10n39, 37n50, 40, 53n37, 61n63, 65, 81–82, 89, 99, 134, 135n12, 154, 157, 164n20, 168n33, 194, 196n83, 205
Judenstadt
139n36, 145–146
Judeophobia
90n8, 106, 210
justice
5, 48, 64, 150
Kabbalah
18, 141n44, 157, 168n34, 182n10–n11, 183n12–n13, 187n34, 187n36, 191, 193, 196–197, 199, 201n109, 204–206
kabbalistic
141, 191, 193, 196–197, 201
kabbalists
188, 192–193, 198, 202
lactation
81n41, 124
lament
23n1, 25–27, 30–31, 36n49, 37n52, 38, 40, 147, 150
lamentation
24n3, 30n30, 139, 148n71, 150
legislation
19, 232, 252
leisure
9, 219, 225
leper
61n63, 90
leprosy
60, 89–90
life cycle
19, 94n21, 231
lifestyle
17, 55–57, 59, 65, 109, 112, 114, 122, 222
lion of Judah
93
luxury
52–53, 58, 62, 126
luxurious
53, 55, 57
ma’aseh merkavah
197
madness
59
magic
124, 188–190, 196, 202
magical
77n33, 189–192, 194
Maimonides
11, 17, 19, 20, 22, 111, 112, 113, 114, 117, 123, 124, 128, 129, 130, 10n42, 11n49, 12n53, 107n1, 112n18, 112n19, 112n21, 114n25, 117n38, 123n73, 124n75, 107 n. NaN 162n9, 163n17, 166n27, 168n35, 172n50
masculinity
14, 54, 225n75, 226
maleness
96
manliness
92
masculine
52, 122–123, 225
masculinisation
122
meat
57–59
medication
49, 239n27
medicine
1, 3, 4n15, 6–7, 10–11, 16–18, 43, 44n7, 49, 52n32, 55, 64, 107–111, 113, 115–117, 120, 123, 145, 188n41, 190, 192–202
medical
1, 3–4, 6, 10–12, 15–19, 43–44, 49–52, 54, 59–60, 64, 107–125, 127, 140–142, 144–145, 154–155, 164n21, 186n33, 190, 192–195, 197–202, 209–210, 216, 219n48, 226, 232, 235n12, 238, 244–245, 247n49–n50, 249n56, 250–254
Mediterranean
15, 43, 59, 88, 91, 108–109, 115, 121n62, 129, 131
melancholy
121
mens sana in corpore sano
222
menses
54
menstruation
10n38
menstrual cycle
9
metaphor
1, 29, 62, 69, 73, 75, 78, 80–81, 83, 238
metonymy
69
military
2, 8, 17, 57n52, 59, 92, 94, 96–99, 104, 220, 225, 233n6
mind
3, 18, 31, 47–48, 54n44, 58, 61–62, 69–70, 92, 96, 100, 110, 125, 212–213, 222, 224–226
minority
137, 155
miscarriage
54
mobility
9
moderation
5, 16, 58n54, 59, 65, 113
monks
97
monotheism
7, 16
moral conflict
19, 231
mortality rates
9n33, 143
Moses
2, 10n42, 11n49, 19, 22, 48, 56, 58, 64, 81, 96n29, 112n21, 124n73, 129, 133n1, 139, 141, 146, 148n71, 149, 162n9, 190, 196, 198, 200n103, 206, 236n15, 242n34, 246n44, 251n61–n62, 255, 257
mourning
24–27, 32, 34–35, 149–150, 154
Muscle Jewry
222
muscle Jews
209
muscular
14, 97–98, 210, 222, 225
Muslim
18, 144, 215
naked
32, 97, 104
nationhood
210
nature
5, 7n23, 12, 14–15, 17–18, 26–27, 30, 34, 37n52, 38, 45–46, 48, 51–53, 55, 58, 76–77, 82, 103, 121, 152, 193, 195, 201, 216–217, 226, 251n61
naturalistic
64
naturalists
14
Nazi period
14, 224
New Jew
14, 210, 225, 227
newborn
123, 190
Noah
10n39, 49, 64, 81
non-naturals
18, 108, 110–111, 160n5
normality
nomal
15–16, 69, 76–77, 83, 209, 221–222, 224
nutrition
10, 200, 232
oath
142
obstetrics
124
overeating
9
Pahlavi
6
pain
24, 26, 28n18, 28n20, 30, 32, 34–38, 46, 53, 150, 238, 239n27, 247
pandemic
134, 155
Paracelsus
194, 196n80, 202, 206
Paracelsianism
198
paradise
18, 226
passion
52, 62, 110, 124
pathogens
9n33, 61
patients
4, 19, 50–51, 115, 122, 143–146, 223, 232, 238, 239n27, 246n45, 248, 251, 253n64–n65, 254
patriarchy
87
Pax Romana
8, 20
Persia
6, 15, 20
Persian
12, 73n20, 85, 115n32
pharmacies
145
physician
1, 4, 8, 11–12, 16, 43, 49–51, 54, 56, 64, 102, 108, 111–112, 114, 117–118, 120, 123, 140–141, 146, 170n39, 175n62, 186n33, 192, 194–195, 197, 199, 201–202, 210, 223, 232, 235, 244–247, 253n65, 254, 257
piety
2, 191
plague
2, 13–14, 52n30, 119, 122, 133–135, 137, 148n71, 149, 151–155, 191, 193
Plato
3–5, 7n23, 9, 21, 45, 48, 53, 57n52, 63–64
pleasure
54, 122
pollution
14, 154
polytheism
7
posqim
19, 231, 235, 249–250
posture
56, 95, 104
poverty
13, 122
power
2, 5, 12, 26–27, 39, 50–51, 53, 63, 91–99, 104, 142, 214, 217, 251n60
Prague
v, 133–134, 138–140, 142, 144, 148n71, 148n73, 149–151, 153–157, 184n19, 205, 211, 212n20, 213–214, 230
prayer
39, 53n37, 102–103, 140–142, 150, 190–191, 239n28, 240, 245
pregnancy
9, 10n40, 20, 123, 128
pregnant
10, 124, 147n68
prejudice
14, 210
prevention
17, 107, 135, 208
procreation
3
procreative
10
prophecy
2
prostitutes
142–143, 199
Provence
108–109, 115–118, 120–121, 162n9
providence
16, 50
psychology
23, 136–137, 243n39
psychological
16, 25n7, 27, 37n50, 39
public health
11, 13–14, 119, 208, 215, 223, 226
punishment
2n5, 46, 49, 141, 143, 182n9, 233, 236
Pythagoras
59, 68
quality of life
19, 231, 238, 246n46, 247–248, 252, 253n65, 254
quarantine
141, 151
queer
14
rape
31
recipe
141, 191
recuperating
47
rehabilitation
24, 36–37, 39
relaxation
56, 225
remedy
51, 58n54, 210
reproduction
3, 83
resilience
v, 16, 23n2, 36, 39, 133–137, 142–143, 149n75, 150n81, 151, 153–154, 156–157
retribution
24, 29, 33–34, 38
ritual
13, 23, 25n7, 26–27, 30–31, 38, 53, 71, 77–78, 146, 191
rootlessness
211, 214
running
5, 143
runner
57
rural
9, 215
Russia
208, 210–211, 220, 229
Sabbath
102–103, 147, 166n26, 239
Samson
96, 152
sanctity of life
19, 231, 237, 240, 247, 252, 253n65
scourge
141, 209
scouts
15
sea
55, 59–60, 194
self-control
9, 53–54, 65
self-denial
59
senses
16, 48, 54, 58, 62, 69, 249
sewage
8, 80
sex
72, 99, 123
sexual
29, 71–72, 79, 81, 83, 100, 111, 113, 123, 143
sins
143, 186n33
skin
74, 78, 141
slave
5, 94, 223
enslaved
31
enslavement
8
slaves
53, 96, 124, 223
sleep
12, 57n52, 108, 110–111, 192, 217
social stratification
17, 87
soldier
57, 87, 96–98
soul
2, 3n6, 5, 7n22, 16–17, 28n20, 47–49, 51–52, 55, 57, 61–65, 70–71, 74–75, 91, 96, 99, 108–109, 117, 124, 189, 191, 197, 201–202, 216–218, 236–237, 239n28, 240–241, 243
Spain
vii, 10, 121n62, 126, 129, 133, 140, 150, 162n10
sports
14, 56, 208, 220, 222–226
starvation
31, 33
statue
92, 95–97
stereotype
14, 91
Stoic
48, 93, 95
suffering
2n5, 28, 33, 37n52, 38, 60, 133, 135–136, 139, 146–154, 231n1, 232, 235, 236n14, 237n17, 238, 242n35, 245–248, 251–252
suicide
3, 232, 233n6, 234–235, 244, 248n55
sultan
11
survival
3, 46, 153–154, 219–220, 250
symptoms
4, 49, 151
syphilis
13
talismanic
141
taste
58, 62, 80
temperance
5, 49, 53, 58n54, 64
terminally ill
238, 240, 244, 253n64
Therapeutai
55–56
training
4n15, 5, 25, 44, 56, 225
transgression
27, 88–89
transvaluation of values
209
trauma
16, 23, 25, 27, 36, 38, 135–136
traumatic
16, 24, 36–37, 135–136, 150
tuberculosis
14
unemployment
8, 13
unity of body and soul
2, 62, 70n7
vegetables
59, 215
Vienna
47n19, 66, 77, 139, 156, 211, 212n20, 215–216, 227–228
violence
13, 17, 25n7, 29, 32n34, 37n52, 55n47, 133, 153
virtue
5, 52, 61, 65, 92, 113, 142, 218n44
vulnerability
28–29, 35, 98, 137, 143, 145, 147n68, 153, 155
walks
4n15, 5, 95, 113
wandering Jew
211
Wandervögel
14n67, 15, 225
war
8, 142, 233n6, 234
water
8, 15, 46, 55, 60, 72, 82n42, 101–102, 143–144, 208, 236
wealth
5, 48, 101n43, 126, 144
weep
28, 150
Weimar culture
224
well-being
3, 4n11, 7, 13, 16, 18–19, 46, 107, 118, 137, 142, 208, 231
wet-nurses
123, 142, 143n51
witches
188–189, 191, 202
woman
9–10, 17, 24–25, 29, 32–34, 46, 52–55, 72, 74, 78–79, 82, 87, 93, 98–100, 104, 109, 121–127, 142–143, 147–149, 155, 189, 246n46, 226
feminine
14
womb
2, 72–73, 147
wonder rabbis
213
yeshiva
14, 210, 213, 217
yeshiva bokher
14, 210
Yom Kippur
101–102, 166n26
Zion
24, 27–36, 38–39, 41–42, 171n44, 198n94, 205, 210, 215, 227
Zoroastrian
6–7