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Children from the cheder (traditional religious school) in Munkacs recite their lesson.
Exterior of house of study. Book peddler negotiates a sale with a young customer.
Outdoor scene of Jewish weavers.
Zionist youth sing while dancing the hora, a folk dance.
Large group of schoolchildren sing Hatikvah, the Zionist anthem.
Huge crowds of well wishers gather in the streets on the occasion of the wedding of the Munkács rabbi's 18-year-old daughter, Frime Chaye Rivke. The Grand Rabbi of Munkács (Mukacevo), Chaim Elazar Shapiro, father of the bride, makes a speech in Yiddish exhorting Jews in America to continue to keep Shabbes (to observe the sabbath day). The wedding party then enters the synagogue grounds, and the cantor sings blessings beneath the wedding canopy. The wedding concludes with festive klezmer music. The marriage had been arranged six years earlier, though the bride and groom did not meet until their wedding day. Newspaper accounts indicate that some 20,000 people attended the celebrations.
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