This is a translation of a 1906 German study of Feld (cemetery) and Keywer (grave - from the Hebrew and Yiddish קבֿר) measuring by...

In this extract from his 1899-1912 unfinished autobiographical novel, Shloyme Reb Khayims, Mendele describes his mother, Sore - who we...

18th century Lithuanian Jewish philosopher, Salomon Maimon, mentions the practice of feldmestn in his memoirs written in 1792-3. In an...

This short description of the practise is found in the Yizker Bukh 'Pinkes fun der shtot Pruzhene' - a memorial book written by former...

The two little old ladies, who Mordechai Markus saw and started at through his window. Two little old ladies, two cemetery measurers –...

Yiddish Poet Morris Rosenfeld, best known for his poems describing the hardships of Jewish immigrants in the US, wrote the following poem...