Article on Candlesticks in Tablet Magazine

Tablet Magazine has published my article on this project, along with a slide show. It was the first week in September, and in cowboy boots and jeans, camera slung over my shoulder, I crunched through the springy thick tangle of undergrowth that carpets the old Jewish cemetery in Radauti, a market town in the far [...]

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Chaya Dvoira’s epitaph: “a modest and honest woman”

The Yiddishist Dov-Ber Kerler, of the University of Indiana, has kindly provided a translation of the epitaph on Chaya Dvoira’s tomb. It adds a little confusion, as it notes her date of death in 1904, while the registry book shows it as February 22, 1905…or maybe that’s just the date the death was entered… H[ere] [...]

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Braided Candlesticks on a Great-Great-Grandmother’s Stone

At the tomb of my great-great grandmother (my Grandma Becky’s grandmother) Chaya Dvoira Herer Halpern, in the Radauti Jewish cemetery. She died Feb. 22, 1905 at the age of 69) (This is a duplicate of a post to my Jewish Heritage blog) By Ruth Ellen Gruber Sept. 8, 2009 My cousins all left, but I [...]

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(Candle)sticks on Stone

I’m experimenting with wordpress to see if this is the best blogging software to use for my project (Candle)sticks on Stone: Representing the Woman in Jewish Tombstone Art.

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