Tag: Yizkor
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‘The entire shtetl accompanied her to her eternal rest’ – reverence for the midwife
Quoted on the introduction page to midwives in Eastern Europe is the following question from the Jewish Ethnographic Program – a vast questionnaire created by S. Ans-ki’s ethnographic team in 1913, and a hugely important source on midwives. “Is there a custom that when the midwife dies, all of the children whom she brought…
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Cemetery and grave measuring
This is a translation of a 1906 German study of Feld (cemetery) and Keywer (grave – from the Hebrew and Yiddish קבֿר) measuring by Russian Jewish anthropologist S. Weissenberg. The original German article can be found here. It actually consists of two articles – the second half, in which the font changes, is an extract…
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