Every day I brought her to her place in the old cemetery, where it was her custom to sit on a bit of straw and beg for donations singing a nign from lamentations...
There are few particularly religious women in town ... who also measure the cemetery.
Priestesses of the shtetl - new article in Feminism and Religion
'The entire shtetl accompanied her to her eternal rest' - reverence for the midwife
Children lament their mother in Brestetshke
A woman's lament for her husband
Video of last year's Elul cemetery measuring and a new online offering
The eyshes-khayil of Hendrikov, from Y. Y. Trunk's "Poland" (1944)
Sore-Rokhl "the fat" cemetery Jewess of Krinski
"Today it is customary to go to the cemetery with an elderly Jewess"
Some witchy winter offerings from friends of pulling at threads ...
Tear open the heavens, people are dying
Inviting the dead to our parties - a post for Hoshanah Rabbah
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