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SUMMARY:Natan Meir Lecture: The Cholera Wedding
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Federation of Greater Portland\nCommunity Calendar\nhttp
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 edding-1613518538-375017\n\nNatan Meir will explore the history and meanin
 g of a peculiar ritual that emerged among East European Jews in the 19th c
 entury: to stop the spread of an epidemic\, the community would marry its 
 most vulnerable and marginalized members—orphans\, beggars\, and the dis
 abled—to each other in a wedding held in the cemetery.\n\nDrawing on var
 ious approaches from the fields of social and cultural history\, anthropol
 ogy\, folklore\, and cultural studies\, Dr. Meir will explain why this rit
 ual held such...
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