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that would please God, all the more so for the marginal of the community who were unlikely to marry in any case. However, what comes across in many of the appalling descriptions of the forcibly married, and their reactions to each other, is that the act was far more callous than charitable. But it
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The community who wants to perform this wedding selects the bride and groom. The two are either poor orphans, disabled, beggars or homeless and thus would have no reasonable chance of getting married by themselves. The wedding takes place at a cemetery and is financed by the community and the
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was enabled by traditional attitudes around communal charity. Those who had relied on it were seen as being, quite literally, property of the townspeople and thus had no say when their (previously reviled) bodies were needed to protect the town.
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To this end, communities would conduct weddings of two orphans at the grave sites. The Jews pledged to support the orphans, and in return, they hoped the souls of the deceased would reward their efforts and intercede to block the evil
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community pledges to support the couple. It is hoped that by performing this form of charity the souls of the deceased would reward their efforts and intercede to block the evil decree.
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in 1922 and involved people who carried the wounds of those events: a woman with an eye gouged out by pogromists, a war veteran who had been wounded and lost the ability to speak."
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According to Nathan Meir, "In the early 20th century, a new category of marginal persons appeared: those who carried the physical and mental scars of World War and
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There were records of black weddings being performed in Jewish communities around the world. There was one performed
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Stepchildren of the Shtetl. The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939
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first cholera pandemic and then another written reference to one taking place in 1849 in
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Kafrissen wrote that "The first evidence of a plague wedding is from 1831, during
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felt it was efficacious because helping to marry off a needy bride was a great
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wedding didn’t have one single interpretation. For example, some
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Mt. of Olives cemetery
chuppah
Yiddish
Jewish
wedding
epidemics
orphans
beggars
disabled
Tablet
cholera
rabbis
mitsve
Russia’s
Krakow
Mount of Olives
New York
Spanish flu
pogroms
Odessa
Bnei Brak
COVID-19 pandemic
Stepchildren of the Shtetl. The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939
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"Married at the First Sight — of a Plague"

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