Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: the cultural universe of a sixteenth-century Jewish physician Inc. and The Lovers emerge from

and The Lovers emerge from dark skies and swirling clouds

levels of observance

Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath - but her health is failing

Drawing from her earlier work on Jews and whiteness

Woven Roots explores the rich history of plant-based medicine and folk healing traditions of Eastern Europe from 1600 through the present

Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: the cultural universe of a sixteenth-century Jewish physician Inc. and The Lovers emerge fromIn 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