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Avraham Reyzen
… ' Reyzen, Avrom ' in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe website. See also: A list of his …
Hopke (LKT)
… p. 491 (#255) . “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, …
Beroyges-tants
… [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of … looking at these last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about … and this leads him to the additional conclusion that, at least in the 70s and 80s of the previous century, this dance …
The Shtetl Book
… York … Ktav Publishing House … … 1975 … Yiddish culture … Eastern Ashkenazi … Diane K. Roskies … David G. Roskies … …
Mekhutenim-tants
… of the signing of the ‘tenoim’ particularly as a family feast accompanied by modest [dance] turns... yet with no … [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of … looking at these last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… where the other writes that at the end of a wedding-feast, when the time for the couple to be alone comes, people …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… . “Mitzvah Dance ( Mitsve tentsl ). After the guests had feasted to their hearts’ content in the wedding halls, and … and dancing was usually to announce the end of the wedding feast... This dance was brought in many different Jewish … [c. 1910s] only once, during the ‘khasn mol’ -- groom’s feast, and not during the wedding or seven days of feasting. …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… composer Aleksandr Spendiarov: “You by birth are an Eastern person, for you the East, as they say, is in your blood, and precisely in this … of the efforts of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, at least until 1917. After 1917, the Russian Empire fractured …
Semele (LKT)
… that, second, it was well known in the 1870s and 1880s (at least in the Vilna area). The name might well have remained …
Shemele (LKT)
… [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of … looking at these last dances, outside of sources found in [Eastern European Jewish] folk song, we have nothing about … and this leads him to the additional conclusion that, at least in the 70s and 80s of the previous century, this dance …