Wednesday 11 March 2015

MALKE BERLAND (MALKA BERLANT)

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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