Tag: Yom Kippur

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The forgotten women’s rituals of Yom Kippur

Three women holding a length of string in a Jewish cemetery, practising feldmestn
Three women presumed to be feldmesterins. Image taken from S. Weissenberg, Neue Folge, (1906), pp.39-45.

Cemetery- and grave-measuring were part of the female clerical role in Ashkenazi Jewish life, and powerful tools of ancestral connection.

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Essay Jewish Culture The Jewish Left

Happy Yom Kippur!

Arbeter Fraynd editors and their Jewish anarchist comrades sitting for a portrait
Editors of Arbeter Fraynd and their anarchist comrades, London, 1912

Revisiting the Yom Kippur Ball.