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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (with Prof. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner)

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Prostituting Jewish Girls

Young jewish women who get involved sexually and find themselvesn in dire needs travel, usually are targeted during that travel by people who are pimps. And what they do as they start prostituting jewish girls is something that we know from helotic sources. We have fascinating source from northern italy from the late fifteenth century, a famous chuva by a rabbi juda minz. He realizes that this is a social problem. Its not an idual case here and there. But he says, this is something that i know of is going on right now.

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