feldmesterinMay 167 minLeybeshekhe the 'Cemetery Jewess' of KremenitsZogerke, Zogerin and Firzogerin, are all female forms of Zoger – announcer or preacher, and are usually used to denote a female prayer...
feldmesterinMay 24 minGitele 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...
feldmesterinMay 11 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 294 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...
feldmesterinMar 7, 20214 minWitches gotta eat 'Feldmesterin’ sometimes appears alongside other ‘superstitious’ female trades, including witchcraft. Here are two examples from maskilic...