Nogueiro et al. (2015) utilize Y chromosome and mitochondrial genotype data from a contemporary Iberian and non-Iberian human populations to explore the genetic identity of Portuguese “crypto-Jews.” In the first section of the paper, a historical introduction reviews the plight of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula from the earliest archaeological evidence, through the Inquisition, to the current da...

Table of content: 1. The frames of the research 2. The historiography of the Romanian and Hungarian Jewish communities; the sources of the research 3. The Jews of Cluj till the WWI 4. The demographical structure and the topography of the Jewish population of Cluj 5. The Jews occupational structure and their role in the economy 6. Interdictions, Segregation and Anti-Semitism in Cluj 7. The Jewis...

The Holy Land has absorbed millions of immigrants in recent centuries: Jews from East and West, Druze, Circassians, Muslim and Christian Arabs. The land is unique and diverse in geographical location and ethnic groups, and also in its cultural characteristics, including traditional medicine and use of materia medica. However, these traditions have waned over the years. The young state of Israel...

Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) has long been considered to be genetically determined, but the pattern of inheritance has been unclear. It has been suggested that inheritance may differ in Jews and non-Jews. In the present study, data gathered in a nationwide survey of ITD in Israel were analysed. Between 1969 and 1980, 47 patients were collected, of whom 40 were of European origin. In these ...

Pel/kert's essay expands the concept of the "Final Solution" to illcl'Uie ti,e perseCfltioll and exlermi11atiol1 of large 11umbers of non-Jews who were regarded by tile Nazis as racially or biologically "inferior," as "lives uHworthy of life." But the attempt to t1'llce racism back to science and rhe welfare state could perhaps risk leaving us with a story of Auschwitz without the Jews. We mlls...

Idler and Kasl's study of elderly New Haven residents indicated that some Christians and Jews postponed their deaths until after the celebration of religious holidays. However, the correct p values are larger than they report and make their conclusions less convincing, especially for Jews.

Medicine in the Middle Ages was, and ever since remained, one of the main preoccupations of the professionally restricted Jews. One of the medical dynasties on the Iberian Peninsula was the Bueno (Bonus) family. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and their spread in Europe, these Iberian physicians became successful everywhere-just as the Buenos were in the Netherlands.

I The Jewish-Christian debate goes back to the origins of Christianity. Jews are portrayed in the New Testament as questioning both Jesus’ messianic status as well as the claim that he was resurrected from the dead. As adherers to a religion which emerged from Judaism, early Christians found it necessary to write polemical treatises attacking Judaism, probably more for purposes of self-definiti...

BACKGROUND Jewish culturally supported beliefs may discourage drinking and drunkenness as ways of socialising and coping with stress. Thus Jewish men under stress may be relatively more likely to become depressed, and less likely to use and abuse alcohol. This study is the first qualitative comparison of Jews and Protestants, men and women. It examines whether alcohol-related beliefs are consis...