Women, Demons, and Healing: Women’s Medical History Seen through Amulets
Zoom Webinar
This talk will explore various aspects of women’s medical issues and practices in the Jewish society of late antiquity, based on the rich and overlooked source of Jewish-Palestinian Aramaic amulets.
Healing Women in Jewish History
New histories of medicine and the body offer a more direct vantage on women’s experiences than traditional approaches mediated through the sources and concerns of men. This series explores what we know about women as both practitioners and patients throughout Jewish history, and what we stand to learn from such scholarship about women’s lives more generally.
Featuring
Rivka Elitzur-Leiman
Rivka Elitzur-Leiman
Rivka Elitzur-Leiman is a Kreitman fellow at Ben-Gurion University, and a former post-doctoral fellow at New York University, Harvard University, the New York Public Library, and the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on ancient Jewish amulets, Jewish magic, material culture, and social history.
Cosponsors
Katz Center public programming is supported by gifts from the Klatt Family and the Harry Stern Family Foundation.