Re: shaddach vs csardas

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At 3:01 PM -0700 3/3/2000, Helen Winkler wrote:
>Just a little more on my query re: the shaddach.  The editor of the 
>manuscript says that there were lots of unusual spellings in the 
>original; eg, broiges tants was written as barquestance.
>
>Would it make any sense for the "shaddach" to be a mis-spelling of 
>csardas?  Thanks to Joshua Horowitz I know the vengerka was a dance 
>done in Jewish communities based on the Hungarian csardas.  Would 
>this have been done in Jewish communities in England around 1875?


England, 1875?  Hmm....Could this be an unusual spelling of schottishe?

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