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“Working toward a Healthy Generation”: An Archival Show-and-Tell on Jewish Women’s Health in Eastern Europe, with Stefanie Halpern
Stefanie Halpern
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“Working toward a Healthy Generation”: An Archival Show-and-Tell on Jewish Women’s Health in Eastern Europe, with Stefanie Halpern
Featuring: Stefanie Halpern
From folk remedies to patient medical records to lectures, speeches, and pamphlets about contemporaneous medical practices, there are rich archival materials at YIVO that shed light on Jewish women’s health at the turn of the 20th century. This talk by director of the YIVO Archives, Dr. Stefanie Halpern, will share documents and ephemera from the newly digitized Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project that highlight Jewish women’s health and medicine in Eastern Europe.
Presented as part of the Yiddish Book Center’s 2022 Decade of Discovery: Women in Yiddish.
This event took place on June 16, 2022. It was presented online by the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.
This recording was digitized and added to the library in November 2022.
This recording is in English
