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Zemerl (LKT)
… begin on Saturday night before the wedding... Young men and women would gather at the bride’s home for a “goodbye party” …
Tvile
… the bride was led into the mikve with klezmer and old women danced in front of her.” [Staro-Konstantin, Ukraine, … the last immersion on her wedding day, she and the other women performed the ‘Mitzvah Dance’ (‘Dance of the …
Tsigayner-tants (LKT)
… 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, one which only the Modnitzers knew, this …
Sheyne-minke (LKT)
… 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, one which only the Modnitzers knew, this …
Sher
… dances. The šer and other couple dances were done by women (or girls) alone. In all the descriptions of weddings no special women’s dances or the šer . There is evidence that in earlier centuries women did indeed dance together with men; however, it is …
Regn (LKT)
… of the crowd accompanied them. At the same time, the old women danced a Reigen dance in front of the couple...” …
Motse-shabos (LKT)
… begin on Saturday night before the wedding... Young men and women would gather at the bride’s home for a “goodbye party” …
Minuet (LKT)
… [the groom] to the house where the bride was with the young women, but his visit was brief since he was supposed to …
Mazltov (LKT)
… accomapnied by floods of tears and the loud sobbing of the women, especially the bride.” [late nineteenth century]. … of the couple. First they played sad melodies that made the women cry, actually when the women saw the klezmers approaching they began to cry, then …
La Gallarda matadora
… was maintained mostly by oral transmission, primarily by women. The romances, for example, were sung as lullabies and …