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Retande (LKT)

… citation, you get the full reference. “‘ A retande.’ bris dance.” [Orgajev, Bessarabia, c. 1930s-40s]. Bik 1964 . …

Sarvers-tants (LKT)

… of each citation, you get the full reference. “Waiters’ Dance.” Stutschewsky 1959, p.176 . (Musical notation …

… citation, you get the full reference. “‘ Shemonah-esreh ’ Dance”.“Tzvi Fridhaber, scholar of Jewish dance, Haifa, writes to us:... I was approached by Ms. Chava Verbah and she told me of two wedding dances that she recalled from her childhood in the area of …

Sher

… you get the full reference. “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian quadrille.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 . … they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer as well.” Beregovski 1935 [= …

Sheyne-minke (LKT)

… quibbled with the girls, [and] there a konter-tants was danced for [the women’s] approval, one which only the Modnitzers knew, this [dance] was already part of the high hand-dances, next [came]: a semele, a tsigayner-tants , a …

Hag Purim – The story behind its melody

… ( example 5 ). It is possible that Beregovsky heard this dance tune played by a klezmer instrumental ensemble. The …

Shrayer

… is interesting to establish whether non-Jews adopted Jewish dances. We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up … [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. 540] . “We used to dance all kinds of dances:... shrayer ...” Slobin 1982, p. 28 . See Sher . … …

Shtoktants (LKT)

… old man is the expert in the ‘shtoktants,’ the ‘stick dance’... he turns to Avrem’l the klezmer , calling for ‘a … circle. The old man is an expert in the ‘ Shtocktants ’ (‘Dance of the Stick’). Immediately, a circle of young … wide enough for the old man to freely swing the stick as he dances. The old man commandingly turns to Abramele the …

Sirba

… (Romanian Sirba ) is another traditional Romanian music and dance genre, known throughout the east Carpathian region … mountainside, while the final, merry cadences of the brisk dance express the joy of reunion with his wayward ovine...” Alpert 1993, p. 2 . “Sirba: Romanian-Jewish dance tune typified by triplets in the melody over a 2/4 …

Skotshne/Skochne

… played Jewish tunes in addition to the Ukrainian dance-repertoire. In the same way they brought their … “There are also cases in which the name of a Jewish dance is not Jewish but Ukrainian, yet it is hard to ascertain that the dance has been adopted from the Ukrainian surroundings. The …