Re: Mikita Dance

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Helen Winkler wrote:

> Thanks for the information about the chickens--that was interesting.  Here
> is another challenge.  In the yizkor book below they talk about the Mikita
> Dance.  Is Mikita a Yiddish word?

Not to my knowledge.

> What is the Mikita dance?

The wedding couple circle one another,
exchanging colorful blue Japanese power tools.

Sorry.

Seriously, I believe it is Ukrainian
(it does not appear in my Polish Dictionary).
It may be a place-name.

It is used as a surname,
i.e. - (former) Chicago Blackhawks hockey great
Stan Mikita, (immortalized in the film "Wayne's World",
where Wayne and his buddies hang out at
Stan Mikita Donuts).

Wolf





>
> Helen
>
> http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/voronovo/v1.html
> CHAPTER I: THE JEWISH TOWN OF WORONOWA
> Written by Moshe Berkowitz, beginning 1943
>
> The "wise man" of the town, Abraham from Lubarta, would pay a visit to every
> bride before the wedding, asking what she would prepare for the wedding
> feast. If it was rice cereal he would not attend, nor would he, as was his
> custom, greet her and her bridegroom carrying two full pails of water after
> the wedding ceremony. Nor would he dance his traditional "Mikita Dance" to
> entertain the guests. The wretched Abraham had once been scalded at a
> wedding with rice cereal and since then he avoided this dish. He announced
> that if poppy- seed buns were served at the wedding, he would be there. In
> most cases, the in-laws indulged him?..
>
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