[Avodah] muzinka

[Joel Rich]

When the [Ukrainian] wedding celebrations were coming to the end (after a
few days), wedding guests would put the parents of the bride or groom on a
wagon and take them to the village inn (bar) for the so-called “selling of
the parents,” which meant the parents had to buy everyone a drink. If the
parents married off their last child (son or daughter) then the guests
would make wreaths and place them on the heads of the parents and thus take
them to the village inn. In this frolicking way the wedding celebrations
would come to the end.

She found the information in a Ukrainian magazine published in 1889, which
included an engraving illustrating the event. The magazine article was
based on the works of a Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist and scholar,
Pavlo Chubynsky (1839-1884), who traveled through Ukrainian villages in the
second half of the nineteenth century, collecting folklore information,
which he later published.

In the 1800s, many village inns and taverns in the Ukraine were owned or
operated by Jewish families, she noted. Therefore, every time the parents
of the newlyweds came into the taverns wearing wreaths and treated everyone
to a drink, the Jewish tavern owners saw this. It is very likely that this
is how the custom came to be part of the Jewish wedding.

HMMMMM


KT
Joel Rich
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