Tosaphists and taboo: a review of Haym Soloveitchik's “Yeinam”

Among the stranger assertions made by Werner Sombart in The Jews and Modern Capitalism was that “it can be proved with great certainty that the Jew's freedom from the evil effects of alcohol (as also from syphilis) is due to his religion.” Yet, the Jewish religion, unlike Islam, never prohibite...

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Published in:AJS review
Subtitles:Review Essay
Main Author: Horowitz, Elliott (Author)
Contributors: Soloveitchik, Haym 1937- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2005]
In: AJS review
Further subjects:B Book review
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