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Worlds That Passed
… Simḥah Zaḳs … A. S. Sachs … Jewish life and customs … Lithuania … Lithuanian jews … Eastern Ashkenazi … Abraham Simchah Sachs …
Tsu der khupe (LKT)
… when escorting the bridegroom to the Huppah.” [Zhagare, Lithuania, late nineteenth-century]. Sachs 1928, p. 146 . … in a march with the klezmer out to the khupe .” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1890s-1900s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 874 . See also …
Khupe-marsh (LKT)
… wedding... [and] for poor wedding.” [Ritova (Rietavas), Lithuania]. Grod 1948, pp. 23-24 . ( Musical notation …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… played the freilachs , and the ‘Kosher Dance!’” [Zhagare, Lithuania, late nineteenth-century]. Sachs 1928, pp. 144-45 . “Freilachs: a merry tune.” [Zhagare, Lithuania, late nineteenth-century]. Sachs 1928, p. 284 . … themselves [against tears] with a freylekhs ...” [Vilna, Lithuania, 1870s-80s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 876 . “ A …
Beroyges-tants
… of free improvisation... In Riteva [northwest of Kovno], Lithuania the ‘beroyges’ and ‘shalom’ dances were done … the klezmorim . [In another description, from a wedding of Lithuanian Jews in America, c. 1959:] The guests stand in a … friendship, love...all accompanied by the melody.”[Ritova, Lithuania, pre-World War II]. Grod 1947, pp. 165-68 . ( …
Mekhutenim-tants
… accompanied by a special melody...” [Ritova (Rietavas), Lithuania, pre-World War II]. Grod 1950, p. 35 . (Musical …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… is a kosher one. And in truth it was really like this in Lithuania and in other places... In some places people used … century. To them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings … band played freilachs , and the ‘Kosher Dance!’” [Zhagare, Lithuania, late nineteenth-century]. Sachs 1928, pp. 144-45 …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… century. To them can be added the ethnographer of Lithuanian and White Russian Jews, Moshe Berlin, who brings …
Semele (LKT)
… ’...Sung to a semele-tants .” [Podbroz, near Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1920s-30s]. Cahan 1938, pp. 40 (#69), 305 … of the high hand-dances, next [came]: a semele...” [Vilna, Lithuania, 1890s]. Matskevits 1893 . “Hershl Danilevitsh … ‘semene’ dance or the ‘semele’ (mus. ex. 16, 17).” [Ritova, Lithuania, c. 1910s-20s]. Stutschewsky 1959, p. 173 . …
Shemele (LKT)
… Both mothers-in-law are dancing a shemele .” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1871]. Zunser 1964 , p. 202. See Semele and …