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Beroyges-tants
… Poland, c. 1906]. [Note: The full text of this source is a nearly identical description of the same exact wedding … [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 …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… themselves the money. This was a custom in all of Galicia. Nearly the same [practice] was confided to me by the rabbi … . “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 …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… students). The statistical disparity effectively meant that nearly one in every three Jewish university-level students … 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 …
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 … play a kazattske! ’...Sung to a semele-tants .” [Podbroz, near Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1920s-30s]. Cahan 1938, pp. 40 …
Redl (LKT)
… come dance, as long as the redl whirls around!” [Tshudnov, near Vloyn, Poland, World War II]. Cahan 1957, p. 235 (#246) … 245-46, (#263) . “Other dances performed at weddigns in East European communities were:... Redl, Frailachs, Karahod, …
Kozatshok (LKT)
… borrowed, but in the klezmer interpretation they were given near-virtuoso features. Moreover they became multi-part … Jewish pieces.” Goldin 1989, p. 19 . “After the wedding-feast they began to dance. The dances were varied according …
Krakoviak (LKT)
… . “ ‘Krakovianke’ ”. [Warsaw; Braylov, Podalia; Priluk, near Poltava]. Cahan 1957, p. 490 (#226-28) . “Besides the … (#77) . (Musical notation included). “After the wedding-feast they began to dance. The dances were varied according …
Quadrille (LKT)
… Cahan 1952b, p. 89 . “‘To a quadrille.’” [Vashlikove, near Bialystok, pre-World War II; David-Haradok, near Vilna, pre-World War II]. Cahan 1957, p. 490 (#224, … the waltz words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest …
Polka
… man leads her home and sings her the polka.” [Byalitse, near Vilna, Lithuania, pre-World War II]. Cahan 1957, p. … II]. Cahan 1957, pp. 268-69 (# 296) . “Polka.” [[Byalitse, near Vilna, Lithuania, pre-World War II; Minsk, Russia, … the waltz words were sung which went with the rhythms... Eastern European Jews were accustomed to invite each guest …
Sher
… ago and that it was ‘Jewishized’ to a great extent (at least musically). A broader, more definitive statement can be … ‘sher’ dances, symbolizing the end of the wedding was near.” [Orgajev, Bessarabia, c. 1930s-40s]. Bik 1964 … that are widely found in the accounts of Jewish Ashkenaz in Eastern Europe, and they are danced among us up until this …