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Article A Tale of Two Pandemics? How a Law for Torah Reading Became a “Dead Letter” in the Wake of the Black Death—and Was Brought Back to Life by COVID-19 was published on October 1, 2022 in the journal Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences (volume 4, issue 1).
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