Klogerins

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'The women came into the synagogue wailing like a storm' - a memory from Tomashov

This is an extract from Sh. Leibovitsh 'A krankn a refue' - healing for the sick - in the Tomashover Yizker Bukh (1965.) Leibovitz...

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Shiphrah-Leah, the zogerke of Kletsk

In the Yizker (memorial) book written by former residents of the shtetl Kletsk, now in Belarus, I found the following short description...

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Klogerins un baveynerins – Lamenting women and weeping women - Abraham Rechtman

What follows is an excerpt of an ethnographic memoir - Yidishe etnografye un folklor (Jewish ethnography and folklore) – written in 1958...

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The wailing women of the shtetl

In his memoir Khoreve veltn, written in an effort to preserve in memory the customs of the Jewish shtetlekh of Lithuania destroyed during...

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Witches gotta eat

'Feldmesterin’ sometimes appears alongside other ‘superstitious’ female trades, including witchcraft. Here are two examples from maskilic...