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Polka
… War II]. Cahan 1957, p. 237, #250 . “Moshe, Moshe, Come here already, we are going to dance a polke with a sher !... we will dance in eight a sher ... Khaye, Khaye, come here already, we are going to dance a mazurke and a sher … pre-World War II]. Cahan 1957, p. 491, (#235-36) . “There are also ‘cosmopolitan repertoire’ couple dances of …
Polonaise
… Ukraine, 1820s-30s]. Fridkin 1925, pp. 44-7 . “The name ‘sherele’ is the diminuitive form of the old ‘sher’ or ‘shir’ …
Sher
… which they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer as well.” Beregovski 1935 [= … of weddings no special women’s dances or the šer . There is evidence that in earlier centuries women did indeed … quadrille, and lancers. The šer is not mentioned there. I imagine this happened because Levanda wrote the …
Sheyne-minke (LKT)
… you get the full reference. “The bride had her space, where the women quibbled with the girls, [and] there a konter-tants was danced for [the women’s] approval, …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… in Europe and in the Jewish settlement in Palestine/Israel where it remains alive to this day among Israeli children. As … The songs were published periodically by Kipnis and gathered in his 1923 collection of children’s songs titled Ma h … arozet which he published in Germany during his short stay there ( example 7 ). Soon after its publication, “ H ag …
Shrayer
… weddings, festivities, entertainments, and so on. Here it is interesting to establish whether non-Jews adopted …
Shtoktants (LKT)
… bodies twisting and their canes swinging without stop. There is a second type of ‘ Shtocktants ’ which is even more …
Sirba
… most important genre was the doyne ( doina ). In addition, therewere a number of non-dance genres (such as mazltov far … the sirba doesn’t seem to have caught on in Jewish music. There are a few recordings and transcriptions, but evidently …
Skotshne/Skochne
… to play frequently at non-Jewish weddings and festivities where they undoubtedly played Jewish tunes in addition to the … 1982, p. 526] . (Musical notation included). “There are also cases in which the name of a Jewish dance is … not have been adopted from the Ukrainian folk music, since there were far fewer professionally-trained Ukrainian folk …
Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
… for it. The form of the dance was not further recalled. And here are the contents of the song: tants, tants, tants! ... …