Tobacco was unknown in Europe before the discovery of America. However, unlike other imports from the Americas that enriched European cuisine and coffers, European society did not uniformly embrace tobacco. At first welcomed as a miracle drug and cherished as a […]
About Louise Hecht
Louise Hecht, is a Senior Lecturer in Jewish history at the Kurt and Ursula Schubert Institute of Jewish Studies at Palacký Universität, Olmütz Czech Republic.