This issue discusses two main topics: "Serpents in Jewish Lore" - a transcultural topic treated as such in four essays and Holocaust Medical Studies. The latter will henceforth be considered a regular topic in KOROT, and will include a selected number of studies presented at the annual meetings of the Nahariya Conferences on Medicine in the Holocaust, convened by Prof. Shaul Shasha.
Contents
EDITORIAL
The Serpent in Medicine, Medical Culture and the Jewish Tradition
Ephraim Nissan
The Cyclical Snake in Jewish Sources: An Examination of Occurrences of the Ouroboros
Samuel Kottek
The Serpent in the Talmud
Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Toxicology and Treatment: Medical Authorities and Snake-Bite in the Middle Ages
Helena Paavilainen
Viper Bite Therapies in Maimonides‘ On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs
Holocaust Studies
Miriam Offer
The Study of Jewish Medicine during the Holocaust: Its Creation and Preliminary Steps
Etienne Lepicard
True Friendship or Relation against Nature? The Libman-Carrel Correspondence, 1923–1934
Peter Schwarzand and Wolfgang Neugebauer
Medicine without Humanity: A Brief Outline of the History of Nazi Euthanasia in Vienna, Austria, 19381945
Kenneth Collins
Practicing Humanity: Four Medical Practitioners and their Holocaust Legacy
Varia Moshe Feinsod
A Distant Reflection: The Physician in the Eye of the Jewish Medieval Satirist Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (12871337?)
Zalman Greenbergand and Anton Alexander
Professor Israel Jacob Kligler: List of Publications
HISTORICALNOTES
Kenneth Collins
Samuel Levenston: An Historical Footnote
Avi Ohry
Jewish Physicians and Scientists' Historical Contributions to Society
Korot of the Past
Joshua O. Leibowitz
The 25th Anniversary of Koroth
L. Wislicki
The Day of Nazification of a Hospital in Berlin
BOOK REVIEWS
Wolfgang Uwe Eckart: Medizin in der NSDiktatur: Ideologic, Praxis, Folgen, 2012.
Danielle Gourevitch: Limos kai Loimos: A Study of the Galenic Plague, 2013.
RegisNessim Sachs: Medecins juifs du Xe au XVIIe siecle, 2014.
Robert Weston: Medical Consulting by Letter in France 16651789, 2013.