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Sher
… you get the full reference. “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian quadrille.” Alpert 1996b, p. 59 . … they invited Jewish musicians. The Ukrainian youth there danced the šer as well.” Beregovski 1935 [= …
Shemonah-esreh tants (LKT)
… citation, you get the full reference. “‘ Shemonah-esreh ’ Dance”.“Tzvi Fridhaber, scholar of Jewish dance, Haifa, writes to us:... I was approached by Ms. Chava Verbah and she told me of two wedding dances that she recalled from her childhood in the area of …
Sarvers-tants (LKT)
… of each citation, you get the full reference. “Waiters’ Dance.” Stutschewsky 1959, p.176 . (Musical notation …
Retande (LKT)
… citation, you get the full reference. “‘ A retande.’ bris dance.” [Orgajev, Bessarabia, c. 1930s-40s]. Bik 1964 . …
Regn (LKT)
… the crowd accompanied them. At the same time, the old women danced a Reigen dance in front of the couple...” [Brest-Litovsk, Poland, …
Raynlender (LKT)
… that among our large masses, for a long time now the folkdance has had been accompanied by singing and song; and not only to [modern couple dances such as] the polka did people improvise and sing …
Polonaise
… citation, you get the full reference. “You had Polish dance tunes like krakowiak , oberek , na wesolo , mazur and … Alpert 1996a, pp. 16-17 . “It can also happen that a dance has a Yiddish name and the melody for the dance is borrowed from another people. Thus, a polonaise …
Polka-mazurka
… the full reference. “Today’s girls... go to weddings and dance polkas ; polke-mazur is their life. [Warsaw, Poland, … p. 235 (#245) . “After the wedding-feast they began to dance. The dances were varied according to generation. The young people …
Polka
… citation, you get the full reference. “You had Polish dance tunes like krakowiak , oberek , na wesolo , mazur and … svadebnye obichai ( Perezhitoe 3), the author lists the dances done by girls with the bride at the preliminaries … waltz, mazurka, quadrille, and lancers. ... Most of the dances Levanda mentioned were widespread among the masses …
Pleskun (LKT)
… ones and even freely transformed versions. The Jewish dance pleskun takes its name from the Ukrainian pleskach , but the music of these dances is different. ‘In the klezmer repertoire,’ Beregovski …