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“The bazetsh di kale, leading from there to where the wedding took place, to the khupe in the large synagogue, and back home -- all to the sounds of a ‘freylekhs’... Often the wedding-parade stretched over several streets before leading the in-laws back home, accompanied the whole way with the A. G. [Avrom Goldfaden] ‘getsoygene motive.’” [Dubno, Poland, pre-World War II]. Katshke 1966, p. 666.
See Tsu der khupe and Fun der khupe.