Annie Gottfried Cohen
@annsplaining.bsky.social
Historian researching communism and anti-fascism in the 1930s and 40s, Spanish Civil War and (l'havdil) Jewish women whose job was to talk to the dead. www.pullingatthreads.com. Yiddish teacher and translator. She/her. Live in 🥐, come from 💂, part-time 🗽
A Blue Sky? In this economy?
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A Blue Sky? In this economy?
It's such a beautiful city! I lived here for a year when I was 19 but I was so in my own head back then I mostly just remember it being very dark in the winter (which is still true)
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It's such a beautiful city! I lived here for a year when I was 19 but I was so in my own head back then I mostly just remember it being very dark in the winter (which is still true)
Just moved to Scotland for my PhD and happy to answer questions! I always mask indoors
October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Just moved to Scotland for my PhD and happy to answer questions! I always mask indoors
I'm don't know very much about plant magic or folk medicine in general, but if you are interested in how deceased ancestors were called on to help heal the living I'm happy to have my brain picked!
September 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I'm don't know very much about plant magic or folk medicine in general, but if you are interested in how deceased ancestors were called on to help heal the living I'm happy to have my brain picked!
I have a website with sources about women religious workers, mostly about women who worked in the cemetery and were paid to speak to the dead pullingatthreads.com
I also recently wrote this summary of my research jwa.org/encyclopedia...
I also recently wrote this summary of my research jwa.org/encyclopedia...
Pulling at Threads
Rediscovering the rituals of Ashkenazi Jewish women
pullingatthreads.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I have a website with sources about women religious workers, mostly about women who worked in the cemetery and were paid to speak to the dead pullingatthreads.com
I also recently wrote this summary of my research jwa.org/encyclopedia...
I also recently wrote this summary of my research jwa.org/encyclopedia...
and in case anyone is wondering what the heck I'm on about pullingatthreads.com/cemetery-mea...
Elul is here, which means it's time to go to the cemetery and call your ancestors
Elul is here, which means it's time to go to the cemetery and call your ancestors
Cemetery Measurers and Soul Candle makers – feldmesterins and kneytlekh-leygerins
In cases of severe illness or very difficult childbirth, Jewish women in Eastern Europe turned to a ritual known in Yiddish as feldmestn or keyver-mestn – cemetery or grave measuring. Often a last …
pullingatthreads.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
and in case anyone is wondering what the heck I'm on about pullingatthreads.com/cemetery-mea...
Elul is here, which means it's time to go to the cemetery and call your ancestors
Elul is here, which means it's time to go to the cemetery and call your ancestors