Delivering Knowledge: Jewish Midwives and Hidden Healing in Early Modern Europe by Jordan R. Katz New Year oppressed people

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Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known in Hebrew as a ketubah) through the present day and showcases sixty of the most innovative and beautiful ketubot of the last half century

With a thriller's narrative control

that would in just a few years vanish forever

and assimilation

Delivering Knowledge: Jewish Midwives and Hidden Healing in Early Modern Europe by Jordan R. Katz New Year oppressed peopleThis book offers a new perspective on the history of early modern Jewish communities by centering the experiences of Jewish midwives. In the wake of the Thirty Years' War, as cities and towns across northern and central Europe placed new emphasis on the regulation of healthcare and childbirth, Jewish midwives stood at the crossroads of tremendous changes in both Jewish communities and the surrounding Christian municipalities. Drawing on previously