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Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation: Israel Najara's Shaming Revisited.

Gossip and rumor as a source of historical information has occupied scholars from different fields in the humanities and social sciences for several decades. This essay addresses a series of severe accusations against the poet and musician Rabbi Israel Najara (ca. 1550–ca.1625) cast by (or in the na...

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Published in:Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 115; no. 3; pp. 453 - 489
Main Author: Seroussi, Edwin
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Summer2025
Subjects:
Gossip
Rumor
Jewish poets
Najara, Israel
Rabbinical literature
Ashkenazim
Sabbathaians
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