DEATRA COHEN, co-author of Ashkenazi Herbalism, is a former reference librarian, trained as a clinical herbalist at the Berkeley Herbal Center, co-founded a Western Clinical Herbal collective, and is currently part of a community herbal project. In her research, Cohen is dedicated to recovering the lost or forgotten shared plant healing cultures of Jews and their neighbors in the historic Pale of Settlement.

ADAM SIEGEL, co-author of Ashkenazi Herbalism, is a former research librarian, trained linguist, and award-winning translator.  In his research, Siegel explores the symbiosis of plants and peoples in both the Old World and the New.