Tis the season
We're one week away from Rosh Hashanah - historically the biggest working week of the year for feldmesterins. I wanted to re-share this...
Tis the season
Khoydesh Elul is upon us ...
This Sunday at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn
Event this Sunday - Home Rituals and Kitchen Remedies
Bobtshke Kilikovski Cohen, the zogerke who measured cemeteries
'Rifke the crazy one' and Bobe Tzinke
'The women came into the synagogue wailing like a storm' - a memory from Tomashov
"Incantations must not be taught to anyone"
Beyle Shoyver's 'childbirth mitsve'
'Lost souls' from a 1928 ethnographic study
Woman soul
How to make soul candles for Yom Kippur
How to measure a cemetery in Elul
In the month of Elul
Measuring Mount Carmel Cemetery this Sunday
Leybeshekhe the 'Cemetery Jewess' of Kremenits
Gitele the gabete part 2: how Gitele became known as the Koriv 'angel'
Gitele the pious Gabete of Koriv, part 1.
Shiphrah-Leah, the zogerke of Kletsk
Klogerins un baveynerins – Lamenting women and weeping women - Abraham Rechtman