Korot

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.