RE: last child (question from my web page)

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

The best way to really know is to ask at the Yiddish Language and Culture Atlas 
at Columbia University because wedding traditions was one category of research 
they did conduct.   Go to their web site and write Dr. Mikhl Herzog or his 
assistant.  I believe you have a web link to the Atlas already on your web page.

Reyzl
 


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From:  Mark H. David[SMTP:mhd (at) world(dot)std(dot)com]
Sent:  Friday, November 20, 1998 9:59 AM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
Subject:  RE: last child (question from my web page)

Reyzl, I'm really interested in knowing if they play "di mezinke oysgegebn"
at frum weddings, and if it was played all over Yiddishland before WWII.
Thanks,

Mark

At 01:40 AM 11/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>This is something completely different and not what Mark's customer is
referring to.
>
>What you are describing goes on at chassidic and very frum weddings.   "di
mizinke oysgegebn" iz done at all traditional and Conservative Jewish
weddings, but probably frum weddings too.   Haven't gone to many very frum
weddings lately to be really sure, but I know I have seen them at least at
2 of them, one at a Mirer Yeshiva bokher's wedding and one Lubavitch, at
least 20 years ago. 
>
>Reyzl
>
>
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>From:  Moshe Denburg[SMTP:denburg (at) direct(dot)ca]
>Sent:  Thursday, November 19, 1998 8:34 PM
>To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
>Subject:  Re: last child (question from my web page)
>
>Mark David wrote:
>
>>
>>I got this question through my web site.  Can anyone answer it?
>>
>>>My last child is geting married and I know that the ritual that my wife
>>sit in
>>>a chair in the middle of the floor and all dance around her. what song does
>>>the band play? can i purchase the song so that I can give it to the band?
>>
>>Mark David
>>Yiddish Voice Radio
>>http://www.yv.org/
>
>It is the bride who sits in a chair, not the mother of the bride (or groom).
>The song which is sung is 'Keytsad m'rakdim lifnei hakala', which translated
>means: 'How does one dance before the bride?'
>
>I believe this is from the Talmud, a question that the Rabbis ask, in order
>to ascertain how best to fulfill the mitzvah of making the bride (and groom)
>happy.
>
>The tradition is that all the guests take turns dancing as crazily and
>funnily as they can, while the bride sits watching. One popular way of doing
>it is to have men and women line up opposite each other and take turns
>trying to outdo each other dancing before the bride. The groom may also be
>seated with her.
>
>I don't know where precisely you can find the music, Mark, but it's quite
>common, and being an 8 bar melody, if you're in a pinch I could fax it to
you.
>
>All the Best,
>
>Moshe Denburg
>
>