Measuring Mourning: A Ritual for Loss
Coupeville Library, 788 NW Alexander St. --- Join the Coupeville Library in welcoming Humanities Washington speaker Maia Brown for her presentation, Measuring Mourning. This participatory presentation explores a recently-resurfaced Ashkenazi women’s tradition of feldmestn—the practice of measuring ancestors’ burial places with candlewick, later burned for the living and the dead. How […]