The Midwife Of Venice
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“It is not natural to withhold love from a child.”
Hannah Levi is well-known throughout sixteenth-century Venice for her skill in midwifery. When she is summoned by a Christian count to attend his laboring wife who is near death, Hannah must make a dangerous decision. It is illegal for Jews to render medical treatment to Christians, but the payment for her services will buy the freedom of her merchant husband who is being held for ransom in Malta.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“It is not natural to withhold love from a child.”
Hannah Levi is well-known throughout sixteenth-century Venice for her skill in midwifery. When she is summoned by a Christian count to attend his laboring wife who is near death, Hannah must make a dangerous decision. It is illegal for Jews to render medical treatment to Christians, but the payment for her services will buy the freedom of her merchant husband who is being held for ransom in Malta.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“It is not natural to withhold love from a child.”
Hannah Levi is well-known throughout sixteenth-century Venice for her skill in midwifery. When she is summoned by a Christian count to attend his laboring wife who is near death, Hannah must make a dangerous decision. It is illegal for Jews to render medical treatment to Christians, but the payment for her services will buy the freedom of her merchant husband who is being held for ransom in Malta.
ISBN 978-1-4516-5747-0
Roberta Rich
2011