{"id":23903,"date":"2020-04-20T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belisrael.info\/?p=23903"},"modified":"2020-05-06T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T12:30:27","slug":"hi-khosidl-and-7-40-goodbye-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belisrael.info\/?p=23903","title":{"rendered":"Hi Khosidl and 7.40 goodbye! (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Where the \u00a0\u0336D\u0336r\u0336e\u0336a\u0336m\u0336\u00a0 Popularization Can Lead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(by Nata Holava)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I already wanted to get off from the preparation of this material, since, after looking at my almost ready longread, I burst out sobbing. No text can convey all my feelings as they spark with electricity from the photos and spring with living water from the video streams of Weimar<\/a>. But then another shtick<\/a> caught my eye.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s omit details such as traditional Jewish \u201ckokoshniks\u201d from the Gomel region worn by funny aunties, this is a matter of personal taste (maybe not entirely personal, but it would be another longread of sobbing…). Let\u2019s omit dramaturgical miracles like \u201cwe were playing Belarusian dances and suddenly decided to switch to Jewish\u201d in an interview, because once we gave ourselves a handle<\/a> to such miracles\u2026<\/p>\n

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…in 2017, when a Barisawclub asked Minsk musicians to learn several Jewish dances for a master class, \u201cconditionally\u201d Jewish dances from the traditional<\/em> Belarusian repertoire were added to them (photo by V.Tsvirko)<\/em><\/p>\n

And yet, if something is called a “Jewish dance party”, then I want to clarify: comrades, did you mean a party in a Jewish community<\/em>? Or that people will dance Jewish dances<\/em>? I beg your pardon, but are you sure that what you are dancing at this party are actually Jewish dances?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

Let’s start ab ovo. In the fall of 2019, an article about the performance of a Belarusian ethno-choreographer at a cultural event in Minsk saw the light. The honorable Sir Dancing Master offered a certain Jewish dance from his village, which no longer exists as a folklore pattern, but the “old-timers remember” because they “spied it on local Jews.” At the same time, he demonstrated textbook movements of a stage parody of Jewish folk (Soviet!) choreography. Elderly rural musicians played the 7.40<\/em>, the dancers repeated the steps, the audience watched, and the national edition highlighted (and added video proofs).<\/p>\n