Fw: Shabbat Weddings?

[Moshe Hochenberg <gcz23...>]

>On  8 May 2000 19:07,  Ari  Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com> wrote:
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>>Or would not have been in any way considered "common practice" (much less
>>"conceivable practice") among the religious community. But, in cities, for
>>instance, to what degree of the Jewish community does that speak? City
>>Jews who considered themselves assimilated, for instance, might have been
>>impatient at the strictures imposed by Jewish musicians following halacha,
>>and might not have felt bound by same.


As  we're  talking  about  the  19th  Century  and  earlier,  the  scenario
in  both  the  shtetl  and  the  shtot  would  still  have  been  much  the
same.  It  was  not  only  a  question  of  observing  the  Halacha,  but
also  respect  for  it  and  for  other  people.

We  could  consider  a  possible  (though  not  probable)  exception  -  a
Reform  Judaism  community  in,  say  Germany,  in  the  second  half  of
the  19th  Century.  Being  "reform",  they  would  already  have  changed
their  practice  of  Jewish  law,  and  so,  there  would  have  been  no
need  for  them  to  go  through  the  sham  of  employing  a  Shades Goy;
they  could've  employed  other  non - observant  musicians  within  their
own  community.

Then  there's  another  question:

Were  there  readily  available  non - Jewish  musicians  who  were
sufficiently  knowledgable  of  the  type  of  music  Jews  in  that
community  preferred/ expected  at  their  marriage  celebrations?  Again,
probably  not.


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