feldmesterinJan 102 min'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...
feldmesterinMay 1, 20221 minShiphrah-Leah, the zogerke of KletskIn the Yizker (memorial) book written by former residents of the shtetl Kletsk, now in Belarus, I found the following short description...
feldmesterinApr 29, 20224 minKlogerins un baveynerins – Lamenting women and weeping women - Abraham RechtmanWhat follows is an excerpt of an ethnographic memoir - Yidishe etnografye un folklor (Jewish ethnography and folklore) – written in 1958...
feldmesterinMay 14, 202110 minThe 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...
feldmesterinMar 7, 20214 minWitches gotta eat 'Feldmesterin’ sometimes appears alongside other ‘superstitious’ female trades, including witchcraft. Here are two examples from maskilic...