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Benjamin ben Isaac of Carcassonne (Hebrew: בנימין בן יצחק קרקשוני, romanized: Binyamin ben Yitsḥak Karkashoni) was a 14th-century Jewish scholar. He is known for his translation from Latin into Hebrew of Jean de Bourgogne of Liége's work on the corruption of the air by the plague, under the title of 'Ezer elohi, ma'amar be 'ipush ha-avir ve-ha-dever ('Divine Help: A Treatise on the Corruption of the Air and the Plague', c. 1370 or 1399).

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Schwab, Moïse (1902). "Benjamin b. Isaac of Carcassonne". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 28.

1. Koren, Nathan (1973). Jewish Physicians: A Biographical Index. Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press. p. 24. ISBN 9780706512694.
2. Barkai, Ron (1998). "Jewish Treatises on the Black Death (1350–1500): A Preliminary Study". Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease. Routledge. pp. 6–25. doi:10.4324/9780429202995-2. ISBN 978-0-429-20299-5. S2CID 211670433.
3. Renan, Ernest (1893). Les écrivains juifs français du XIVe siècle. Histoire littéraire de la France (in French). Vol. 31. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. pp. 723–725.

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