Ashkenazi herbalism : rediscovering the herbal traditions of eastern European Jews / Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781623175443
- ISBN: 1623175445
- Physical Description: xvi, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Berkeley, Californina : North Atlantic Books, [2021]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-302) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A history of Ashkenazi folk healers -- Materia medica -- Afterword. |
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Author Notes
Ashkenazi Herbalism : Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews
DEATRA COHEN is a former reference librarian, is a clinical herbalist who trained with the Berkeley (formerly Ohlone) Herbal Center, belongs to a Western Clinical Herbal collective, and is a Master Gardener at the University of California. In her research, Cohen became frustrated with the lack of practical information available to Jews of Ashkenazi descent, and related to Eastern European traditions in general. Ashkenazi Herbalism was written to reconcile this lack, and the first work in any language to document the herbal practices of Ashkenazi Jews. ADAM SIEGEL is a research librarian at University of California, Davis, and a historian of Central and Eastern Europe, studying issues around cultural contact and plant knowledge in the region. Siegel is a literary translator who has translated works from Russian, Czech, German, Croatian, Serbian, French, Italian, Swedish, and Norwegian, and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship in 2014. Siegel conducted the non-English research for this work, reviewing literature and scholarship in Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian, German, Polish, and Hebrew.