Every day I brought her to her place in the old cemetery, where it was her custom to sit on a bit of straw and beg for donations singing a nign from lamentations...
There are few particularly religious women in town ... who also measure the cemetery.
Video of last year's Elul cemetery measuring and a new online offering
The eyshes-khayil of Hendrikov, from Y. Y. Trunk's "Poland" (1944)
Sore-Rokhl "the fat" cemetery Jewess of Krinski
Inviting the dead to our parties - a post for Hoshanah Rabbah
Tis the season
Bobtshke Kilikovski Cohen, the zogerke who measured cemeteries
How to make soul candles for Yom Kippur
How to measure a cemetery in Elul
And the Jewish women ... they knew how to go to war with Satan
Measuring Mount Carmel Cemetery this Sunday
Gitele the pious gabete of Koriv
Double, Double, Mi un Tsores ...
Witches gotta eat
Rachel's tomb as protection against an evil eye
Das Feld un das Keywermessen - S. Weissenberg
A tkhine for making Yom Kippur candles - extract from Mendele Moykher Sforim's 'Shloyme Reb Khayims'
Extract from Salomon Maimon's lebnsgeshichte
Mestn Feld - a memory from Pruzhany (Pruzhene), Poland