The Physician-Ḥaver in Early Modern Italy: A Reunion of Long Forgotten “Friends”
The Physician-Ḥaver in Early Modern Italy: A Reunion of Long Forgotten “Friends”[1] [2]לפרסומי מילתא ולזכר עולם כתבתי Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD Introduction The Italian Early Modern Period is fertile ground for Jewish medical historical study. Its appeal lies partially in the rich lives and interests of the Jewish physicians beyond the practice of medicine alone. For example, historians have written about physician-poets[3] and physician-philosophers,[4] as well as physician-rabbis. Here I introduce a new category of hyphenated physicians that has escaped…