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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 that
  emerged among East European Jews in the 19th century: to stop the spread 
 of an epidemic\, the community would marry its most vulnerable and margina
 lized members—orphans\, beggars\, and the disabled—to each other in a 
 wedding held in the cemetery.\n\nDrawing on various approaches from the fi
 elds of social and cultural history\, anthropology\, folklore\, and cultur
 al studies\, Dr. Meir will explain why this ritual held such...
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