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Bazetsens (LKT)
… bride sits mutely, like a sheep before her barber, and the women wailed. Then the klezmer began to play sad melodies so as to summon up tears from the women...The badkhn stands up and at that moment becomes a preacher and cries out: Be quiet! The women begin to raise even more of a racket. Then the badkhn …
Fun der khupe (LKT)
… Bik 1964 . ( Musical notation included). “Old women sing this song when they dance opposite the groom with …
Freylekhs (LKT)
… place. The dance was performed in alternating pairs men or women or in mixed couples...” [Dubno, Poland, pre-World War … recites, the klezmorim begin to play a freylekhs and the women who are bursting with happiness leap and dance... … to play sad melodies so as to summon up tears from the women... The badkhn stands up and at that moment becomes a …
Hopke (LKT)
… Hopke -- A happy dance, sometimes for men and sometimes for women. Reyzen 1945, p. 3 . “ Hopke — from the Ukrainian …
Beroyges-tants
… dancing was banned, most often it was performed by two women...” Chochem and Roth 1978, p. 66 . ( Musical notation … [One such example is this song of Eliokum Tzunser:] ‘Women, clap! Take pleasure that both mothers-in-law are … with the groom and the men only with no contact with the women. Also in the essay of Samuel Rappaport, on the …
Mekhutenim-tants
… [One such example is this song of Eliokum Tzunser:] ‘Women, clap! Take pleasure that both mothers-in-law are …
Kosher-tants (LKT)
… . “ Kosher Tants : Most dances are for either men only or women only. The kosher dance, however, is done between a man … and bride. Since holding hands in public between men and women is forbidden, the partners hold the corners of a … accomapnied by floods of tears and the loud sobbing of the women, especially the bride.” [late nineteenth century]. …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… dance in which the men danced with the bridegroom, and the women with the bride ( Sefer Minhagim , Venice, 1590). This … men, had been satisfied, in pairs, and after them also the women separately and even in pairs. After this dance the … the ‘mitsve-tentsl’ -- the bridegrooms grabbed me and the women the bride and they led us out to the small dark room.” …
Semele (LKT)
… ‘fun der xejdr zog men nit ojs’ (Zunser 1895:30)... Women, clap! You’ve gotten satisfaction: Both mothers-in-law … 1952b, pp. 90-92] . “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 …
Shemele (LKT)
… [One such example is this song of Eliokum Tzunser:] ‘Women, clap! Take pleasure that both mothers-in-law are … . “ Shemele . A kind of dance.” Harkavi 1928, p. 513 . “Women, clap, you’ve got your pleasure! Both mothers-in-law …