Klogerins

Leybeshekhe the 'Cemetery Jewess' of Kremenits

Zogerke, Zogerin and Firzogerin, are all female forms of Zoger – announcer or preacher, and are usually used to denote a female prayer...

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...

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...

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...

Witches gotta eat

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