[Avodah] The Mizinke Dance: Tradition, Folklore or Other?

[Isaac Balbin via Avodah]

On 19 Dec 2016, at 4:44 pm, via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
From: "Professor L. Levine via Avodah"
> Please see the article at
> <http://tinyurl.com/gl2o6mc>

> from Jewish Action Magazine.
>> "Based upon the information I had culled, I felt it reasonable
>> to deduce that the mizinke had become a staple at weddings due to one
>> reason: bandleaders."

Professor Levine,

You and perhaps other readers may be interested with what I found.

I wrote it 5 years ago ago, and can't remember; I am also a band
leader/singer (and academic) and I can assure you it is not I who push
for this, anymore than the Hungarians push for their Badchan interspersed
with dancing with the Kallah. I also don't push back. I do as I'm told :-)

I was once asked to sing it when out of state because the band was
unacquainted, so I obliged. Don't rush too quickly to conclusions.

In Melbourne, with the 2nd largest number of Polish Holocaust survivors
in the World (outside of Israel) I can assure you, that Mezinke was
ubiquitous, and lots of fun and simcha for the families (as well as very
emotional in some cases).

<https://pitputim.me/tag/mezinke/>

I'm not sure if I captured every post I did on this with the above link
but start from the bottom and move up.