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“Jewish klezmorim often played at non-Jewish weddings, festivities, entertainments, and so on. Here it is interesting to establish whether non-Jews adopted Jewish dances. We know of cases in which Ukrainian peasants took up Yiddish frejlaxs and sers. The ser is also widespread in Moldavia among the non-Jewish village population (they call the tune srayer). We would need to collect more data to understand how widespread this phenomenon was.” Beregovski 1937 [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. 540]. Beregovski 1937 [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. 540].
“We used to dance all kinds of dances:...shrayer...” Slobin 1982, p. 28.
See Sher.