As I wrote on the introduction page about midwives - known in Yiddish as bobes or heybams - a crucial source on the role and importance...

Two years ago, in the first semester of my PhD program, I took a course with Prof. David Fishman on the history of the shtetl. In one of...

From Rabbi Tuvia Gutman- Rappaport, ‘The biography of a generation’, Yizker-bukh Koriv, (1955) p. 674. Beyle Shoyver, who did charitable...

In Yiddish literature, the practices described on this website are often viewed disparagingly, especially when women used to do them for...