Annabel Gottfried Cohen

Annabel Gottfried Cohen is a historian and a Yiddish teacher and translator currently working towards a PhD in Modern Jewish Studies.

The geometry of remembering

Culture

The geometry of remembering

An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.

The great Yom Kippur chicken revolt

Culture

The great Yom Kippur chicken revolt

For everything there is a season, and every season comes to an end.

The forgotten women's rituals of Yom Kippur

History

The forgotten women's rituals of Yom Kippur

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