“Like Puah and Shiphrah”: Jewish Midwives in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Using the memorbikher literature, which has received only little scholarly attention so far, this article explores the position of the Jewish midwife in eighteenth-century Germany. The memorbikher genre allows us to decipher the activity of many Jewish women who were involved in midwifery and did no...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2022
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2022, Volume: 112, Issue: 2, Pages: 289-315 |
Further subjects: | B
History of Medicine
B Midwives B memorbikher B pinkasim B Jewish women B German Jews B Early Modern Period B memorbuch |
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