feldmesterinFeb 52 minThe eyshes-khayil of Hendrikov, from Y. Y. Trunk's "Poland" (1944)Another short but sweet recollection of a real-life opshprekherke (healer through incantations) and feldmesterin (cemetery or grave...
feldmesterinDec 14, 20232 minSore-Rokhl "the fat" cemetery Jewess of Krinski Since it's the last day of Khanike, when, in some communities, the left over "dead thread" from Yom Kippur would be used to make khanike...
feldmesterinJan 27, 20232 minBobtshke Kilikovski Cohen, the zogerke who measured cemeteriesIn the memorial book to the Jewish community of Volovisk (Vawkavysk, Belarus), I found my second description of a real life feldmesterin....
feldmesterinJan 13, 20234 min'Rifke the crazy one' and Bobe Tzinke Two years ago, in the first semester of my PhD program, I took a course with Prof. David Fishman on the history of the shtetl. In one of...