MALKE BERLAND (MALKA BERLANT)
She was born Malke Levenshtern, and her family came from
Vilna. She graduated from the midwifery
school (in existence since 1832) at Vilna University. She published a popular booklet on hygiene: Gliklikhe
muter (Happy mother), “or an experienced teacher for mothers concerning health…at
the time of pregnancy and nursing children,” published in two editions: according
to Ben-Yankev’s Oytser haseforim (Treasury of books) in 1927, and
according to Pinkhes Kon in Vilna in 1836 (72 pp.).
Sources:
Shmuel Niger, Di yidishe literatur un di lezerin (Yiddish literature and
female reader) (Vilna, 1919); Pinkhes Kon, in Historishe shriftn 1
(Warsaw, 1929); Dr. Y. Shatski, “Kultur-geshikhte fun der haskole bay yidn in
lite” (Cultural history of the Jewish Enlightenment in Lithuania), in Zamlbukh
lite (Anthology Lithuania), vol. 1 (New York, 1951); Zalmen Reyzen, in Yivo-bleter
1.3 (Vilna, 1931).
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