black wedding
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A 19th century Ashkenazi ritual involving a wedding between two orphans that takes place…
A 19th century Ashkenazi ritual involving a wedding between two orphans that takes place in a graveyard, intended to assist in ending an epidemic.
- The unusual Jewish custom of the shvartze chaseneh or “black wedding” goes back to the shtetls (small towns) of Eastern Europe in the days when cholera and other diseases were epidemic in humid summers.
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