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SUMMARY:Natan Meir Lecture: The Cholera Wedding
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 \nNatan Meir will explore the history and meaning of a peculiar ritual tha
 t emerged among East European Jews in the 19th century: to stop the spread
  of an epidemic\, the community would marry its most vulnerable and margin
 alized members—orphans\, beggars\, and the disabled—to each other in a
  wedding held in the cemetery.\n\nDrawing on various approaches from the f
 ields of social and cultural history\, anthropology\, folklore\, and cultu
 ral studies\, Dr. Meir will explain why this ritual held such...
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