Yvonne Friedman

• PHD
• Professor (Associate) at Bar Ilan University

On the basis of fall injury program characteristics across multiple inpatient medical-surgical units from 6 medical centers, we developed and implemented an operational strategic plan to address fall and injury prevention program attributes and enhance program infrastructure and capacity. Expert faculty provided lectures and served as coaches and m...

Crusaders and Muslims each applied to their conflict in the Latin East a doctrine of holy war. Although so ideological a stance toward each other would seem to preclude peacemaking efforts, some 120 treaties were signed between parties to the conflict during the two-century Latin presence in the Holy Land (1097–1291). Explored here is how each part...

Older patients with a distal symmetric polyneuropathy are at markedly increase risk for falls and fall-related injuries. Despite this, few studies have investigated the effect of exercise regimens on gait and balance in this high-risk group. One hundred older patients with distal symmetric polyneuropathy were randomized to one of three intervention...

Despite much research on falls occurring on medical-surgical units and in long-term care settings, falls on inpatient psychiatry units are understudied. On the basis of fall injury program characteristics across multiple inpatient psychiatry units, we developed and implemented an operational strategic plan to address each falls prevention program e...

Living together, living apart. Rethinking Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages. By ElukinJonathan. (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World.) Pp. xi+193. Princeton–Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. £14.95 ($24.95). 978 0 691 11487 3 - Volume 60 Issue 3 - Yvonne Friedman

Jarbel Rodriguez's book is a welcome addition to the renewed interest in captivity and ransom in medieval societies, a hitherto somewhat neglected topic in the military-social historiography of the period. Roughly divided into two parts, the division between the vicissitudes of the captives and their saviors makes for a useful organizational princi...

In medieval narrative the First Crusade and the founding of the Latin kingdom were perceived as Gesta Dei per Francos – God’s own deed. Having no doubt that the success of the First Crusade was a miracle, God’s intervention in history, the chroniclers’ rendering of events was accordingly replete with miracles, such as the discovery of the Holy Lanc...

In contrast to Elaine Scarry's structural theory of torture as a language of power between captor and captive, tracing violent aspects of encounters between captor and captive in the medieval Latin East shows that there torture served a variety of functional purposes and was not perceived as cruelty per se. Among the functions served by medieval to...

This historiographical essay surveys developments in the field of Crusade studies, which have been the subject of rekindled interest in the past two generations. It is divided into three main sections. The first treats the ever-widening gap between historians of the Crusades proper and those who focus on the Latin Kingdom, a gap emerging from their...

Added t.p.: A critical edition of Peter the Venerableʼs Liber adversvs ivdaeorvm inveteratam dvriiem. Introduction (v. 1) in Hebrew with English abstract; text (v.2) in Latin. Thesis--Universiṭat Bar Ilan.

Yvonne Friedman, Bar-Ilan University, yfried@mail.biu.ac.il