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June 15, 2023
Autopsies, Grave Robberies, and Jewish Students’ Uncomfortable Place at a 17th-Century Italian Medical School
A long-forgotten text sheds new light on a gruesome episode.
In the early 1400s, the University of Padua opened its doors to Jewish medical students—the first European institution of higher learning to do so as a matter of course. The school quickly attracted a sizeable number of aspiring Jewish physicians, while positioning itself as a trendsetter in the study of medicine. Edward Reichman recounts a disturbing episode from this era, discovered in a long-forgotten 17th-century Hebrew text:
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