Seemingly pedestrian, the slaughter and sale of meat, especially kosher meat, carries an enormous social and religious charge. This meat’s sale to non-Jews was canonically forbidden. Nonetheless, dispensations to allow it were issued as early as the year 1084, continuing through 1723, making these sales a barometer of a Jewish-Christian equilibrium, or its absence. Interactions, indeed, collaboration between butchers–Jewish with Jewish (including women) and Jewish with Christian–open a window onto the world of butchering itself.
KENNETH STOW is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. He is also founder and, for a quarter century, editor of the journal Jewish History. Stow has written a dozen books and published over one-hundred articles in journals such as The American Historical Review, Speculum, and Renaissance Quarterly.
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