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Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel penned a definitive guide to the medicinal plant knowledge of Ashkenazi herbal healers, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Rare apple hunter Tom Brown, whos been crisscrossing his native North Carolina and beyond, is on a mission to find and save Americas rare apples.

May 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel talk about plant medicine, folk healers and their book, subtitled “Rediscovering Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews.” Presented by Jewish Community Library and KlezCalifornia. Free, with registration.Event Website

Deatra Cohen was studying to become an herbalist when her teacher assigned what seemed like a straightforward task: researching and reporting on the herbal cures and practices of her own culture. But the project was anything but simple. A retired librarian, Cohen was adept at navigating databases and combing through archives. But she could find almost no record of the herbal traditions on which her ancestors, Ashkenazi Jews from the Pale of Settlement, would have relied. Today, Jewish herbalism...