WOVEN ROOTS

Recovering the Healing Plant Traditions

of Jews and Their Neighbors in Eastern Europe

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An expanded and broadened exploration of ancestral folk healing in The Pale of Settlement, Woven Roots will be released, June 3, 2025.

Advance readers say:

"Impressive in scope, fascinating in detail, this compendium of stories and heretofore lost knowledge is a genuine contribution to our herbal libraries."

- Robin Rose Bennett, herbalist and author of The Gift of Healing Herbs, Healing Magic, A Green Witch’s Pocketbook of Wisdom and the Young Green Witch’s Guide to Plant Magic

"A rich picture of little known healing practices and folk beliefs."

- Max Dashu, founder and director, Suppressed Histories Archives, author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion

"For anyone seeking a window into the earth-reverent embodied practices of the peoples of the Pale of Settlement, and any wanting to learn about and rekindle relationships with ancestral plants and healing ways of these lands, Woven Roots is not-to-miss, an absolute treasure."

—TAYA SHERE, host of the Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast, professor of multi-religious ritual, and co-author of The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership