csardas/shadach solved

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

I received the following note from Dick Crum.  So the csardas/shadach 
mystery is solved.
Helen:

"shadach" could easily be a garbled spelling of "csardas". A simple form of 
it (two-figured"ballroom csardas") spread like wildfire throughout Hungary 
and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 1800s, including Galicia and 
other places where there were large Jewish populations. It would be 
surprising if Jews from those areas DIDN'T dance it along with other social 
dances of the day.

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