… bridegrooms snatched the couple from the room...” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1880s-90s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 875 .  See Dreydl …

… accompanied by a special melody...” [Ritova (Rietavas), Lithuania, pre-World War II]. Grod 1950, p. 35 . (Musical …

… Both mothers-in-law are dancing a shemele .” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1871]. Zunser 1964 , p. 202. See Semele and …

… to the room, the guests cried out a ‘vivat’” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1890s-1900s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 876 .  … Vivat …

… go out with a mazl-tov dance...” [Ritova (Rietavas), Lithuania, pre-World War II]. Grod 1950, p. 35 . (Musical … out names, and the klezmer would play along.” [Vilna, Lithuania, c. 1870s-80s]. Zizmor 1922a, p. 874 .  See …

… known as Ponar ), written in response to the mass murder of Lithuanian Jews in Ponary near Vilna. Full biographies: ' …

… wedding... [and] for poor wedding.” [Ritova (Rietavas), Lithuania]. Grod 1948, pp. 23-24 . ( Musical notation …

… and recordings. During the First World War, he ended up in Lithuania, occupied by the Germans, and was mobilized by …

… challah in their hands...” Rivkind 1960, p. 31 .  “The fat Lithuanian mother-in-law went out in a dance before the …

… [i.e in the district of Samogitian in northwestern Lithuania] who had to give up his trade and hide because he … twelve, had to wander from one yeshiva to the next through Lithuania and Poland, educating and feeding himself. … , teacher and prayer leader in Kurland, the El Dorado of Lithuania. There he married the daughter of a distiller at a …