The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Annabel Gottfried Cohen

Annabel Gottfried Cohen is a PhD Student in Modern Jewish History. She has a Research Masters in History with distinction from University of London. She also works as a Yiddish teacher and translator and currently teaches at the Workers Circle, the Paris Yiddish Centre, and Sorbonne Université, Paris.

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Women Religious Workers in Eastern Europe

In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Jewish women served their communities as spiritual leaders and paid religious functionaries. The main women’s leadership roles documented in Yiddish literature, memoirs, memorial books, and ethnographic studies include the midwife, the evil eye healer, the cemetery measurer, the prayer leader, and the mourning woman.