In brief Information

Philosophy This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. ( verify) meso This editor is a mesopedian. This user is against the practice of paid editing on Wikipedia. no ads This user is against advertisements on Wikipedia. This user is an advocate of open research and open access. This user is a staunch advocate of Creative Commons. Mind the Gap This editor wants to close Wikipedia's gender gap.

Administrative This user is a member of WikiProject Judaism This user participates in WikiProject Israel. en-CA -5 This user can contribute at a professional level of Canadian English. CA This user uses Canadian English spelling.

Expertise BAH This user has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Jewish Studies. This user has a minor in Ethnomusicology. MLIS This user has a Master of Library and Information Science degree. This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

Interests This user has an active interest in Social history. This user is interested in Jewish Eastern European History This user is interested in Food history. This user is interested in anthropology and sociology. This user is interested in law.

In detail Information

I'm an American-Canadian Ashkenazi Jew in my thirties. I edit whatever and wherever I please, and take pleasure in making improvements to poorly-written or poorly-cited stubs, start-class, and C-class articles. Overall, I am most interested in topics in Jewish Studies, anthropology, social history, and ethnomusicology. (See below for more details about my interests, and pages I've created or those where I've made substantial edits.)

My username is an homage to, and an attempt to honour, Khane Rokhl Verbermakher and Asenath Barazani, two icons of Jewish scholarship and luminaries among Jewish women.

Interests

Judaism and Jewish material culture

• Halakhah, especially in relation to women's issues
• Nuschaot, hazzanut, and other musical/liturgical topics
• Art and crafts (e.g. calligraphy, papercutting, hiddur mitzvah and ritual objects)
• Food (e.g., the history of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine)
• History of dress, including but not limited to religious clothing; I'm much more interested in the quotidian and especially in women's clothing

Comparative ethnolinguistics

• Language isolates
• Linguistic syncretism ( Yiddish, Djudeo-Espanyol) and languages situated on a linguistic continuum (Western and Eastern Romance dialect continua)

Ethnomusicology

• Georgian and Balkan folk polyphony
• Klezmer
• Turkish and Iranian classical music
• Sacred Harp music

Food history and culture

• Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine
• East European, Caucasian, and South West Asian/North African foodways

Paleolithic, neolithic and other ancient societies

• Skara Brae
• Jōmon period
• Reconstructions of the remains of ancient people. I'm a big fan of Élisabeth Daynès.

Pages I've created

• Larry Gordon (musician)
• Morgan Asoyuf
• Vaybertaytsh
• FrancisGotHeat

Major contributions

• Prisoner of Zion
• Agunah
• Jewish religious clothing
• Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur