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    Gitele the gabete part 2: how Gitele became known as the Koriv 'angel'
    feldmesterin
    • May 4
    • 4 min

    Gitele the gabete part 2: how Gitele became known as the Koriv 'angel'

    Continued translation from Rabbi Tuviah Gutman Rapoport's 'Biography of a generation' in the Koriv Yizkor Book. See part 1 for a...
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    Gitele the pious Gabete of Koriv, part 1.
    feldmesterin
    • May 2
    • 4 min

    Gitele the pious Gabete of Koriv, part 1.

    I found the following description of a feldmesterin and gabete (female community functionary) in the Yizkor book of Koriv, a shtetl near...
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    Double, Double, Mi un Tsores ...
    feldmesterin
    • Sep 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    Double, Double, Mi un Tsores ...

    According to the ethnographic study I posted recently, Yom Kippur candles made with threads that had been used to measure graves were...
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    Witches gotta eat
    feldmesterin
    • Mar 7, 2021
    • 4 min

    Witches gotta eat

    'Feldmesterin’ sometimes appears alongside other ‘superstitious’ female trades, including witchcraft. Here are two examples from maskilic...
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    feldmesterin
    • Sep 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    Rachel's tomb as protection against an evil eye

    In kneytlakh-leygn and feldmestn, it seems that it was believed that by laying the candle wicks around the cemetery they would be imbued...
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    Feldmestn and Kneytlekh-leygn source sheet and ritual guide
    feldmesterin
    • Sep 12, 2020
    • 1 min

    Feldmestn and Kneytlekh-leygn source sheet and ritual guide

    Feldmestn and kneytlekh-leygn were most commonly practised in the month of Elul to make Yom Kippur, particularly during the days of...
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    Das Feld un das Keywermessen - S. Weissenberg
    feldmesterin
    • May 31, 2020
    • 5 min

    Das Feld un das Keywermessen - S. Weissenberg

    This is a translation of a 1906 German study of Feld (cemetery) and Keywer (grave - from the Hebrew and Yiddish קבֿר) measuring by...
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    A tkhine for making Yom Kippur candles - extract from Mendele Moykher Sforim's 'Shloyme Reb Khayims'
    feldmesterin
    • May 31, 2020
    • 5 min

    A tkhine for making Yom Kippur candles - extract from Mendele Moykher Sforim's 'Shloyme Reb Khayims'

    In this extract from his 1899-1912 unfinished autobiographical novel, Shloyme Reb Khayims, Mendele describes the protagonist's mother,...
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    feldmesterin
    • May 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    Extract from Salomon Maimon's lebnsgeshichte

    18th century Lithuanian Jewish philosopher, Salomon Maimon, mentions the practise of feldmestn in his memoirs written in 1792-3. In an...
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    feldmesterin
    • May 31, 2020
    • 1 min

    Mestn Feld - a memory from Pruzhany (Pruzhene), Poland

    This short description of the practise is found in the Yizker Bukh 'Pinkes fun der shtot Pruzhene' - a memorial book written by former...
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    feldmesterin
    • May 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Chapter 4: Stesye and Gnesye - From Moyshe Kulbak's 1926 novel Montok - 'Monday'.

    The two little old ladies, who Mordechai Markus saw and started at through his window. Two little old ladies, two cemetery measurers –...
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    feldmesterin
    • May 25, 2020
    • 1 min

    Feld-mestn by Morris Rosenfeld

    Yiddish Poet Morris Rosenfeld, best known for his poems describing the hardships of Jewish immigrants in the US, wrote the following poem...
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