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November 20, 2024
An expanded and broadened exploration of ancestral folk healing in The Pale of Settlement, Woven...
In the last few years, my mother told me that her father had a set of “bankes”, pronounced BAHN...
brusttea or breast tea = ברוסטטײ was one regional common name in the Pale for marshmallow ...
May 24, 2022
קראָפּעווע (kropeve) or בריִעכץ (briekhts - related to scalding) Has anyone else noticed the...
April 15, 2022
In German Jewish communities of the 18th and 19th centuries, seven weeks after Passover, Shavuot,...
April 2, 2022
Regina Lilientalowa was a Polish ethnographer, translator and journalist at the turn of the...
January 19, 2022
What are some of the remedies you associate with tea? Although we didn't really discuss it in...
January 6, 2022
When I was growing up back East in the 70s, oranges were not as ubiquitous as they are today,...
December 1, 2021
Tobias Cohn or Tobias Kohn (or in Hebrew, Toviyyah ha-Kohen) was a prominent Polish-Jewish...
November 17, 2021
Chamomile or Matricaria chamomilla was a powerfully healing herb in the Pale of Settlement...
It's been six months since Ashkenazi Herbalism was published and in that time many have expressed...
In eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, soothing someone who was out of sorts was...
It’s been almost five months since our book was first published on April 6, 2021. And even though...
August 10, 2021
You may have heard of Berdichev, or Berdychiv as it is known today. Its lore among the Chabad...
In June we spoke with Diana Dukhanova, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at the College of...
Pyellum Bronfen Since finishing Ashkenazi Herbalism, we’ve continued our research on healing...
May 29, 2021
Dear readers of AH, Countless volumes been written about garlic. I did consider including this...
Adam and I are at work on our next book and as we comb through different sources, we're...
A shaynem dank to readers who requested that the Yiddish plant names mentioned in AH be...
We spoke to Brooke Kornegay on her show Soul Soil podcast. You can listen here. Thank you, Brooke...
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