feldmesterinDec 27, 20222 minWoman soul This week I've been teaching an online workshop at Yiddish New York about Ashkenazi Jewish women's customs and practices. For the past...
feldmesterinOct 14, 202213 minPeople and Poultry: a new translation of Sholem Aleichem's 'Kapores'. In this story by the famous Sholem Aleichem, the chickens of an un named shtetl organise a revolt against the pre-Yom Kiper custom of...
feldmesterinSep 15, 20202 minRachel's tomb as protection against an evil eyeIn kneytlakh-leygn and feldmestn, it seems that it was believed that by laying the candle wicks around the cemetery they would be imbued...