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Zhok (LKT)

… Europe, especially in Hungary, Moravia, and Rumania, Jewish youths would assemble on Saturday afternoons for … “While the zhok had already been transformed into several wedding genres (such as mazltov and opfihren di makhetonim … zhok as if it were a new innovation that was not really Jewish. He left Kiev in the Ukraine in the 1920’s perhaps. …

Tants nign (LKT)

… (Mazor-Hadju 1974). Dance tunes are performed mainly at weddings and rejoicing festivals such as Simha Torah and Lag … in the modern era. The dance-song was preserved by the Jewish masses a long time after the social dances had …

Hopke (LKT)

… I]. Cahan 1957, p. 491 (#255) . “Other dances performed at weddings in East European communities were:... Redl, … the hopak . (The name hopak was folklorized into hopke .) Jewish kozachok melodies were borrowed, but in the klezmer … in the klezmer repertoire. They did not acquire a Jewish sound. The kozachoks and hopaks that were adopted are …

Beroyges-tants

… source is a nearly identical description of the same exact wedding excerpted below as Levinsky 1963]. Ben-Yisrael 1960, … p. 1266 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of …

Mekhutenim-tants

… pp. 15-16 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of …

Kosher-tants (LKT)

… is ‘the dance of the groom with the bride after the wedding-meal to certify that the bride is a kosher one’ … the the name of this dance (‘kosher dance’) is originally Jewish, in all instances its music was typically foreign and … the bride is a kosher one’ is far from in good taste for Jewish modesty... In newer times the maskilim began to wage …

Mitsve-tants (LKT)

… singular khusid ] were cornerstones of Leon’s old-time, Jewish dance repertoire. He often referred to them as a … [ mitsve dance], alluding to their frequent use at Jewish weddings to accompany the mitsve [ritual …

Semele (LKT)

… dance. Cahan introduces some German folk songs as well as Jewish ones in which we find a similar dance. However, the … itself was forgotten, but Zunser, who sang his songs for wedding guests, would certainly not have needed to mention a … it may be, that people did not want to let it into a proper wedding. We find a small hint about the ‘semele’ in an …

Shemele (LKT)

… p. 24 . “The ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances [are] two Jewish weddings dances that were widespread in Eastern European Jewish communities, and [formed] part of the style of …