This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed light on the historical and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from primary and secondary sources that include or refers to the term in question. It also indicates whether musical notation or sound recordings are included in the source. By clicking on the bibliographic hyperlink at the end of each citation, you get the full reference.
“Today’s girls... go to weddings and dance polkas; polke-mazur is their life. [Warsaw, Poland, c. 1910s-1920s]. Cahan 1957, p. 235 (#245).
“After the wedding-feast they began to dance. The dances were varied according to generation. The young people would dance: ‘polke,’ ‘polka-mazurka,’ ‘krakoviak,’ and the main dance for the young people was ‘vals’...” [Podalia, c. 1909].” Tshernovetski 1946, pp. 97-114.
““Soon they announced for us a dance. Both of us, my sister and I, had to participate in this... we danced the Polka-Mazurka with steps and everyone cheered us on.” [Brest Litovsk, Poland, 1850]. Wengeroff 1913, I, p. 71.
See Polka.