I've been wanting to find these both for a while, and seeing several "help me find my book" threads lately has finally prompted me to ask.
Book #1
I read this in elementary school. There may be several books--I can't remember whether or not this was a single book or a series but it was/they were definitely written . The story is about a Jewish family with several (4?) girls growing up in the past, possibly during the depression, but I'm not too sure on the time frame. I remember one part where they talk about Yom Kippur and how the girls are only expected to fast at temple for half the day because they are still young. I believe there was also a part where at least one of the girls was getting her ears pierced and had to have string tied in place until the holes healed open.
Book #2
I read this series in high school and the books were written for adults. There were either two or three in the series set in the middle ages. The main character becomes a midwife. She has some sort of special inner light that gives her healing powers. She ends up married to a scholar and becomes pregnant herself. She is unable to use her healing power during pregnancy. At one point, she creates a forcep-like device to ease childbearing, but the church leaders bring her to trial and forbid her use of it because in their interpretation of some Pauline epistle it states women will be saved through pain in childbirth, so by easing the pain they feel she's damning women to hell. Oh, and eventually, when she has the baby, her husband names him the Greek word for "traveler" (which of course I have forgotten).
Any thoughts??
Book #1
I read this in elementary school. There may be several books--I can't remember whether or not this was a single book or a series but it was/they were definitely written . The story is about a Jewish family with several (4?) girls growing up in the past, possibly during the depression, but I'm not too sure on the time frame. I remember one part where they talk about Yom Kippur and how the girls are only expected to fast at temple for half the day because they are still young. I believe there was also a part where at least one of the girls was getting her ears pierced and had to have string tied in place until the holes healed open.
Book #2
I read this series in high school and the books were written for adults. There were either two or three in the series set in the middle ages. The main character becomes a midwife. She has some sort of special inner light that gives her healing powers. She ends up married to a scholar and becomes pregnant herself. She is unable to use her healing power during pregnancy. At one point, she creates a forcep-like device to ease childbearing, but the church leaders bring her to trial and forbid her use of it because in their interpretation of some Pauline epistle it states women will be saved through pain in childbirth, so by easing the pain they feel she's damning women to hell. Oh, and eventually, when she has the baby, her husband names him the Greek word for "traveler" (which of course I have forgotten).
Any thoughts??
