Re: KLEZMER IN THE WEDDING

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itzik (at) mindspring(dot)com wrote:

> I THINK BERT GOT IT RIGHT. THERE WERE SOME WEDDINGS IN WINTER BUT LIKE
> TODAY PEOPLE LIKE TO HAVE THE WEDDING IN THE SPRING. AND YES THEY
> WOULD CUT HAIR TO MAKE A LIVING. THIS ALSO INVOLVED BEING A 'FELDSHER'
> A BARBER-SURGEON.

Hi Itzik:

A "feldsher" was a folk-healer or herbalist/naturopath.  They may have
lanced a boil, etc.
but were not invasive surgeons.
The "feld" would represent the "field" where the healing plants would
have come from.

Wolf

> THE FIDDLER MOYSHE NUSSBAUM WHOM I RECORDED IN THE
> BRONX FROM WESTERN POLAND WAS MY BARBER AND HE STILL HAD HIS BOX OF
> 'BANKES' (CUPPING-GLASSES). THESE KLEZMER-PROFESSIONS WERE GENERATIONS
> OLD- ITZIK
>
> are mostly out-of-doors scenes. It's always summertime in the 19th
> Century.
>
> Yes, I know the chuppah-under-the-stars is the preferred way to go.
>
> Update: not too many folks nowadays get married in the winter in
> Cleveland
> either, but on a limited basis the bar mitzvah bashes (nonexistent in
> Europe) keep rolling along.
>
> So what did the old-time klezmorim do in the winter?  Cut hair?
>
> Bert Stratton
> http://www.yiddishecup.com
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