“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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Main Author: Zinger, Nimrod (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2022
In: 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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