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Polka
… 1959, pp. 164, 166-67, 169, n. 58 . “After the wedding-feast they began to dance. The dances were varied …
Polka-mazurka
… you get the full reference. “Today’s girls... go to weddings and dance polkas ; polke-mazur is their life. … c. 1910s-1920s]. Cahan 1957, p. 235 (#245) . “After the wedding-feast they began to dance. The dances were varied …
Polonaise
… form of the old ‘sher’ or ‘shir’ which used to be danced at weddings by two rows facing each other. While singing the … are part of a longer song actually sung by grown-ups at weddings.” Pipe 1971b, p. 571. “The dance-song is a …
Regn (LKT)
… end of each citation, you get the full reference. “The wedding guests called ‘mazl tov’ and the couple went out …
Shemonah-esreh tants (LKT)
… I was approached by Ms. Chava Verbah and she told me of two wedding dances that she recalled from her childhood in the … mother told her about a cousin Malkha that would perform at weddings and other family celebrations the ‘tants’ (dance) …
Sher
… area), which used to play for Ukrainian artisans...at their weddings and celebrations, to which they invited Jewish … We copied out a whole series of descriptions of Jewish weddings, among them some which were very precise, with many details, for example, the wedding description in Ettinger’s song ‘Di lixt.’ Various …
Shrayer
… reference. “Jewish klezmorim often played at non-Jewish weddings, festivities, entertainments, and so on. Here it is …
Skotshne/Skochne
… “Jewish musicians used to play frequently at non-Jewish weddings and festivities where they undoubtedly played … same way they brought their Ukrainian repertoire to Jewish weddings (e.g., kozackes, skocnas ). V. Kharkov, … clap their hands. The musicians also play frejlaxs at weddings, sometimes accompanied by singing... The …
Tants (Alter yidisher) (LKT)
… I was approached by Ms. Chava Verbah and she told me of two wedding dances that she recalled from her childhood in the … likely 150 years ago. The dance came at the close of the wedding, at dawn, and was accompanied by a special song for …
Tish-nign (LKT)
… table, street tunes (accompanying the march to the xupe [wedding canopy], leading the in-laws, etc.).” Beregovski …