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Portrait albums, photography, Judaica, Havdalah, Childbirth
Israel

Biography

After gaining a doctorate in developmental psychology, I won the National Jewish Book Award for A Time to be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth (JPS, 1998, 2000). I served as guest curator for three exhibitions based on this book: an online exhibition, a joint production for the Judah L. Magnes Museum at Berkeley, California, and Tel Aviv Beth Hatefutsoth Museum, now ANU Museum, as well as a temporary exhibition at The Jewish Museum London. I also curated an exhibition on the art of Havdalah for Bar Ilan University. I published some thirty features about childbirth and midwifery, addressing psychological and social issues. My book, Not to Worry: Jewish Wisdom and Folklore (JPS, 2003) combined psychology and Judaism. My recent publications and ongoing research has been on 19th century Jewish history, notably on Jewish family portrait albums, an early collection of Jewish ritual art, and about the journals of a 19th century Jewish woman.

Activities

Education and qualifications (1)

University of London: London, London, GB

1981 | Ph.D. (Psychiatry)
Education
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Michele Klein

Works (16)

Picturing Jewish Genealogy: Using Nineteenth-Century Portrait Albums as a Genealogical Source

Genealogy
2023-11 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Dressing Up: “Reading” Costume in the Photograph Albums of Nineteenth-Century Bourgeois Jews

TEXTILE
2023-07-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Nineteenth-century Jewish portrait albums

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
2022-03-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1472-5886
Part of ISSN: 1472-5894
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Michele Klein
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Preserving Jewish heritage

Journal of the History of Collections
2021-12-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0954-6650
Part of ISSN: 1477-8564
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Michele Klein

Louis XIII, Richard I, and the Duchess of Devonshire: Nineteenth-Century Jews in Fancy Dress Costume

IMAGES
2020-12-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1871-7993
Part of ISSN: 1871-8000
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Michele Klein

The Anglo-Jewish Identity of a Victorian Middle-Class Woman: A Case Study of Mrs. B.M. Merton (1816–1898)

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
2018 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0793-8934
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Michele Klein

The Candle of Distinction: A Cultural Biography of the Havdalah Light

Images
2014-12-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1871-7993
Part of ISSN: 1871-8000
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Michele Klein

The Havdalah Candle-Holder

Ars Judaica
2012 | Journal article
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Michele Klein

Blood: the good, the bad, and the sticky

MIDIRS Midwifery Digest
2010-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Michele Klein

The Phoenix Midwife

MIDIRS Midwifery Digest
2009-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Michele Klein

Not To Worry

2003 | Book
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Michele Klein

Touch during Childbirth

Israel Medical Association Journal
2003-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Michele Klein

Anxiety in Jewish Sources

Korot, Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science
2002 | Journal article
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Michele Klein

Obstetrics in Jewish Sources

Korot, Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science
1999 | Journal article
Contributors: Michele Klein
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Michele Klein

A Time To Be Born

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society
1998 | Book
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Michele Klein

New Life

New York: Rizzoli
1992 | Book
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Michele Klein