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...
| Publicado en: | Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 115; no. 3; pp. 453 - 489 |
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