Re: mazinke

[AGREENBA <AGREENBA...>]

In a message dated 8/28/03 9:37:59 AM, ganeydn (at) crocker(dot)com writes:


>  But it's really up to the customer.  In spite of the 
> tradition being for the mezinke, we've done it also for the parents 
> of the mezinik (a boy who is the youngest to be married off in the 
> family.)  It's the celebration of "putr vern" ( being freed of the 
> responsibility) for marrying off your children.
> 

EXACTY! Well put :-) I wrote similarly to Dena offline, but you said it best.

adrianne

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Adrianne Greenbaum
Associate Professor of Flute, Mount Holyoke College
Klezmer flutist: “FleytMuzik” and “Family Portrait”
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