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    Leybeshekhe the 'Cemetery Jewess' of Kremenits
    feldmesterin
    • May 16
    • 7 min

    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...
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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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    Shiphrah-Leah, the zogerke of Kletsk
    feldmesterin
    • May 1
    • 1 min

    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
    feldmesterin
    • Apr 29
    • 4 min

    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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    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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